Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma
This book clarifies the mental health effects of racism and provide a neuroscience-informed approach to resolve racism trauma.
About the Book
“Anti-Racist Psychotherapy is an approach designed to clarify the mental health effects of racism and provide a neuroscience-informed approach to resolve racism trauma. This book will help you learn a new and unique approach for conceptualizing racism and recovering from its effects on the nervous system. Using the approaches described in this book will reveal how we can reprocess the pain of our past, inspire hope for the future, and gain a higher level of awareness when discussing the mental health effects of systemic racism”– Cover page 4
—Description from publisher
Table of Contents
“Preface: An introduction to anti-racism
Part One. The Foundational Principles of Anti-Racist Psychotherapy
Chapter 1. Toward solving the problem of anti-Black racism
Chapter 2. The social context for suffering
Chapter 3. The memory process of suffering
Part Two. The Mental Health Effects of Systemic Racism
Chapter 4. The tenets of critical race theory
Chapter 5. The glass cannon: white supremacy
Chapter 6. Maintaining social defeat: Black suffering
Chapter 7. Trauma transmission: Young’s five faces of oppression
Part Three. Neuroscience, Stress, and Psychotherapy
Chapter 8. Internalized oppression and homeostasis
Chapter 9. Caring for the therapist: mindfulness and mirror neurons
Part Four. An Anti-Racist Approach to Psychotherapy
Chapter 10. The integrative psychotherapeutic stance
Chapter 11. The anti-racist EMDR approach
Chapter 12. Auxiliary strategies for client self-care
Chapter 13. Mechanisms of action
Chapter 14. Counter-attack: confronting oppression
Chapter 15. A system of change”
—Description from publisher
Book Access
Purchase/Subscription Required
Archer, D. (2021). Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma. Each One Teach One Publications, [Montreal]. https://archertherapy.com/anti-racist-psychotherapy/
- ISBN: 9781777450434, 9781777450427, 1777450438, 177745042X
About the Author
“David Archer, MSW, MFT, is an anti-racist psychotherapist from Montreal, Canada (Tiohtià:ke). He works full time in private practice and provides consulting services for organizations and other therapists. In addition to being trained as a clinical social worker, he is also a registered couple and family therapist. His philosophies are informed by mindfulness, intersectional feminism, and critical race theory, and he provides mental health services practice using EMDR, Brainspotting, EFT, and other mind-body strategies which utilize memory re-consolidation and working memory taxation methods. Areas of interest relate to working with individuals who have suffered from PTSD, racial trauma, minority stress, addictions, and eating disorders. Mr. Archer is an ally of LGBTQ, Black, Indigenous, and oppressed people of color around the world. He is also the author of the book called Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma.”
—Description from publisher
Date
February 5, 2021
Topics
Racial Trauma
Client Population
Racial/Cultural/Ethnic Groups
Practice & Methods
DEI/IDEA
Extent
224 pages
Publisher
Each One Teach One Publications, [Montreal]
APA Citation
Archer, D. (2021). Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma. Each One Teach One Publications, [Montreal]. https://archertherapy.com/anti-racist-psychotherapy/
Audience
EMDR Therapists, Other Mental Health Professionals
Language
English
Content Type
Book
Access Type
External Resource