Racial Trauma, Neurons, and EMDR: The Path Towards Antiracist Psychotherapy
Race has an exceptionally strong impact on our emotional, physical, and economic wellbeing. It also affects our trauma histories. Despite the fact that as a general concept, race is fake. It’s not real; it’s a social construction (Rutherford, 2020). But for clients who are either White (or “racialized” into privilege), or BIPOC (“racialized” into disadvantage), these fake realities create real consequences.
Learn more in this article from the Fall 2020 issue EMDR & Racial Trauma of Go With That Magazine by David Archer, MSW, MFT.
Go With That Magazine content is typically restricted to EMDRIA members only. However, the EMDR & Racial Trauma issue was made publicly available as part of a collection of Antiracism Resources in 2020.
