Recs if you like Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice...

If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer

Let's break through the fog of the capitalist, racist, colonial system that is holding all of us down. For a new world, we need new perspectives. (this list is from a white european girl, so PLEASE also seek out recommendations from BIPOC creators!!)

problematizing the medical industrial complex | histories of health(care) | eugenics & medical violence | access to holistic, culturally-appropriate care | the coloniality of Western medicine | returning to ancestral medicine & ways

please comment suggestions, this is a growing exploration :)

Non-fiction books about health and how our body works, from anatomy to mental health, from healing to studying medicine. 😷 [Note: Some of these books might be controversial or resonate with some more than with others. Pick and choose what works for YOU. :)] Recommendations welcome

books that are well known in the therapy & mental health world - often read & recommended by therapists, social workers, and other professionals in the field 💕

Indigenous books written by Indigenous authors, about Indigenous Peoples history on Turtle Island, besides on settler colonialism, reconciliation, and Indigenous resurgence - includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, short story, and comic books

I’m currently a second year student at a graduate level Social Work program. These are recommendations from my professors and helpful readings that I found that I believe will make me a better social worker and highly recommend to current and future social workers! I’ll continue to update as I continue and even complete my studies 💜

Note: The American Social Welfare Policy book I listed is for the 6th edition; I highly recommend the 9th edition instead, Stoesz’s insights are very helpful

NF books mainly focused on trauma, especially complex trauma.

So you're studying your psychology/ counseling degree and realize you have the potential to make a good therapist and a good patient. I got you.

The following are books for those looking to develop their therapeutic knowledge, or those so deep into the trenches of their mental health recovery they're explaining therapy modalities to their therapist (or both like me)

So one of the parts that stood out to me from this book was her learning from her dad’s library before things got bad. Plant identification, learning to preserve food, cook those kind of skills and others. This will probably end up a long and I’m also super aware that homesteading and it’s like has become a wee bit radicalised by the right, so whilst I’m gonna try to make a effort to avoid those authors it’s easy to miss. Just let me know if someone is atrocious Also suggestions very welcome!

what my degree reading list should have looked like