Thema Bryant-Davis on Womanist Psychology
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2020
- In her lecture “Wisdom from Womanist Psychology: Integrating Art, Spirit, Activism, and Community,” Thema Bryant-Davis, associate professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and ordained minister, speaks about womanist psychology and the need for a holistic approach to psychology that includes cultural humility, self-definition, and spirituality.
The Fuller Symposium on the Integration of Psychology and Theology is the annual conference held by the School of Psychology. The 2020 conference, “Holistic Healing and Wellness: Mind, Body, and Spirit,” featured Thema Bryant-Davis, associate professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Her lectures, and the faculty and student responses to each, explored contemplative practices and their transformative impact, interpersonal trauma and recovery, and the holistic approach of womanist psychology.
Dr. Thema you are straight light from the Holy Spirit ✨❤️🔥!! Thank you for being an inspiration of vibrancy and strength, modeling for us how to be clinicians who empower and affirm!! You are a blessing!!
Thanks Dr Davis for the your contribution to liberation of human beings...
DR.THEMA THANK YOU SO MUCH WOMEN OF GOD!!
I love this woman's work!
❤Thank you Dr. Thema. Your passion poetry vibrancy analysis and humility teach me to increase my inner strength through your modeling and gift of sharing truth growth and care.
so damn good. im really glad i saw this lecture before i started my psychology course on college
Beautiful respect not tolerate. Wow. Healing
Powerful!!! Wow
Absolutely love this!!! So profoundly inspiring. Oh but by the way, love you my geh buh dahs not LIB accent deh so! You sound like a Trini 😂
Very good.
Thank you.
Poems🥰
I didn't know about the origin of "womanist" (I'm Australian) but had thought of this myself because I hate the feminist hegemony. I thought I could use this term because I'm a woman. Hmm. Jesus is Israeli so His skin would have been brown. Christianity is not a white people's religion but a Gentile r'ship with God. Gentiles are everyone who are not Israeli. Great teaching Dr Thema - I love your work :)
Commenting to defy the demon-devil algorithm. My grandmother raised me right.
While Dr. Davis makes essential observations regarding the emotional and psychological plight of Black women and Latinas, I believe it may be slightly misguided by the fact that ALL people of all races, gender, and sexual orientation have respectively been traumatized living in a world such as ours -not just Back women and Latinas. I've always believed that when we overvalue our identity according to who we are, we lose sight that all manner of trauma and injustice is a humanistic problem we all share. The overvaluation of our respective identity is problematic because the more we subjectively and emotionally invest in our understanding of who we think are, the more we lose sight of what matters most: Namely, learning what it means to be human. As Dr. Karen Horney pointed out
*_“Any sudden increase in interest over sex differences, therefore, must be regarded as a danger signal for women, particularly, in a patriarchal society where men find it advantageous to prove on biologic premises that women should not take part in shaping the economy and the political order. On these premises elaborate convictions serving the interests of masculine ideologies become strategical means of preserving masculine superiority in the economic and political world by convincing women that innately she is glad to keep out of it"_*
Elsewhere she says
*_“Once and for all we should stop bothering about what is feminine and what is not. Such concerns only undermine our energies. Standards of masculinity and femininity are artificial standards. All that we definitely know at present about sex differences is that we do not know what they are. Scientific differences between the two sexes certainly exist, but we shall never be able to discover what they are until we have first developed our potentialities as human beings. Paradoxical as it may sound, we shall find out about these differences only if we forget about them. In the meantime what we can do is to work together for the full development of the human personalities of all for the sake of general welfare”_*
The above excerpts are from Dr. Bernard J Paris’s book *Karen Horney: A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-Understanding Appendix B Women’s Fear Of Action*