What happens when the rise of psychiatry occurs at the same time as the height of slavery?
In her new book - From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter: Tracing the Impacts of Racial Trauma in Black communities from the Colonial Era to the Present – Dr. Ingrid Waldron presents one of the best, research-backed, summaries that I have ever read on the history of racial trauma, psychiatry, and the current state of Black mental health.
Dr. Waldron is a professor and HOPE Chair in Peace and Health in the Global Peace and Social Justice program at McMaster University in Toronto, Canada. She is the founder and director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities, and Community Health Project (ENRICH project) and author of the book, "There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities", which was turned into a Netflix documentary in 2020.
Dr. Waldron joined me for the podcast today, to talk about how race has historically influenced the psychiatric assessment, the need to look at structural competency, and next steps for how we can all make a difference.
Purchase her book here: https://a.co/d/8FYmUXP
Learn more about Dr. Waldron:
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/people/waldroni
https://www.enrichproject.org/
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