Episode 18: Mental Health and Colonialism

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Mark and Alex take turns explaining famous works of Leftist political theory to each other and to their audience in simple, understandable terms

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Episode 18: Mental Health and Colonialism

We Read Theory

42 minutes 40 seconds

5 years ago

Episode 18: Mental Health and Colonialism

Mark and Alex take a look at some of the ways in which our mainstream understanding of mental health fails to combat the legacy of colonialism and its effects on the mental health of Indigenous communities

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Sources discussed in this episode:

"Patients' Diversity is Often Discounted" by Shankar Vedantam

"The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon

"Challenging Hidden Assumptions: Colonial Norms as Determinants of Aboriginal Mental Health" by Sarah Nelson

"Piblokto and European-Inuit Relations" by Lyle Dick