I recommend everyone read the book MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS by Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, or his podcast, or other talks gives much clarity & guidance for the way out of the trauma that we all embody.
Seems clear to me there must be many instances where clients feel like this, it's just not often said out loud. Its good to say these things out loud, maybe change will happen.
As someone in a mixed-race household, I think people _assume_ racism to be behind things that aren’t related at all. You don’t know anyone else’s background or what they’ve gone through - either in their personal history or just earlier that day - and should not be making assumptions about their behavior. For example, if I cross the road to move away from people, it’s because I have PTSD from having been chased down and assaulted in the past. However, someone on the street may look at me and assume that I crossed simply due to racism without considering any other possibility. Stop feeding that monster.
Thank you, that needed to be said. This whole presentation has a whiff of the "repressed memories" craze of the 1980s. "Collective experience" is an ideological claim which comes right out of intersectionality and critical race theory. It risks inserting trauma into a suggestible client to fit an ideological presupposition. Damaging and dangerous.
In this instance, the client approached the therapist because she believed she was being triggered? She found healing (or relief or understanding) by meeting with others who were similarly triggered and this helped her to eventually feel less reactive. That monster already exists.
@@GrimrDirge therapist here says client came to her with the idea that recent racist events were triggering her. Why assume the therapist would be "willing to insert trauma in a suggestible client"? Therapist is black so is naturally going to be biased, is that what you think?
@@MsJaci99 That is correct; in the 80s we were flooded with stories in the news about repressed memories (and a string of accusations) . People who were unhappy and/or vulnerable to suggestion went to psychologists to see if perhaps some repressed memory was beneath all of their unhappiness, and many psychologists were happy to go along with that narrative. In the end innocent people had their lives destroyed, the entire concept was debunked, and the psychologists who started the trend (and those who perpetuated it) got off scot free. This is why I am unsettled by the narrative here. Positive regard and nonjudgemental listening are central to therapeutic relationships; but we must be wary of bundled or ideologically popular narratives.
@@MsJaci99 This is classic critical race theory rhetoric. It's not if there's racism, it's where is the racism. This garbage creates oppression and steals agency from competent people. CRT sessions are meant to "dig up" the racism that "must" exist already. Even though the person hasn't seen or experienced it. Again, stealing agency from normal people.
I recommend everyone read the book MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS by Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, or his podcast, or other talks gives much clarity & guidance for the way out of the trauma that we all embody.
He is pretty amazing
Seems clear to me there must be many instances where clients feel like this, it's just not often said out loud. Its good to say these things out loud, maybe change will happen.
Thank you for sharing this story. I’m curious as to how the woman went about facing the ethnic misunderstandings of her peers?
As someone in a mixed-race household, I think people _assume_ racism to be behind things that aren’t related at all. You don’t know anyone else’s background or what they’ve gone through - either in their personal history or just earlier that day - and should not be making assumptions about their behavior. For example, if I cross the road to move away from people, it’s because I have PTSD from having been chased down and assaulted in the past. However, someone on the street may look at me and assume that I crossed simply due to racism without considering any other possibility. Stop feeding that monster.
Thank you, that needed to be said. This whole presentation has a whiff of the "repressed memories" craze of the 1980s. "Collective experience" is an ideological claim which comes right out of intersectionality and critical race theory. It risks inserting trauma into a suggestible client to fit an ideological presupposition. Damaging and dangerous.
In this instance, the client approached the therapist because she believed she was being triggered? She found healing (or relief or understanding) by meeting with others who were similarly triggered and this helped her to eventually feel less reactive. That monster already exists.
@@GrimrDirge therapist here says client came to her with the idea that recent racist events were triggering her. Why assume the therapist would be "willing to insert trauma in a suggestible client"? Therapist is black so is naturally going to be biased, is that what you think?
@@MsJaci99 That is correct; in the 80s we were flooded with stories in the news about repressed memories (and a string of accusations) . People who were unhappy and/or vulnerable to suggestion went to psychologists to see if perhaps some repressed memory was beneath all of their unhappiness, and many psychologists were happy to go along with that narrative. In the end innocent people had their lives destroyed, the entire concept was debunked, and the psychologists who started the trend (and those who perpetuated it) got off scot free. This is why I am unsettled by the narrative here. Positive regard and nonjudgemental listening are central to therapeutic relationships; but we must be wary of bundled or ideologically popular narratives.
@@MsJaci99 This is classic critical race theory rhetoric. It's not if there's racism, it's where is the racism. This garbage creates oppression and steals agency from competent people. CRT sessions are meant to "dig up" the racism that "must" exist already. Even though the person hasn't seen or experienced it. Again, stealing agency from normal people.