by Molly Merson, MFT

Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory. This interview discusses S. Lily Mendoza’s new book of the same title. Mendoza illustrates how moving toward remembrance, history, and complexity offers a path toward liberation from colonizing narratives.

Re-Envisioning Trauma Recovery: Listening and Learning from African Voices in Healing Collective Trauma. These authors offer a path towards healing that decenters White institutional extraction and recenters the focus on innate cultural notions of healing and repair among displaced and traumatized community members.

Mental(izing) Health. This author offers a critique of White “WEIRD” psychotherapy, highlighting the White clinician/person’s failure to mentalize Black patients/people (Vaughans), and challenges White clinicians to take up race with White patients.