From Freud to Issues of Race, Class & Culture in Psychotherapy | Dr. Daniel Gaztambide

Daniel Gaztambide approaches mental health issues without ignoring cultural contexts of hierarchy, race and class.

Dr. Gaztambide is a therapist/clinician as well as an academic at the New School for Social Research, his work focusing on liberation psychology, critical race theory and decolonial perspectives on mental health.

Some topics covered here:
How he got into psychology, Freud, anxiety/stress caused by extreme hierarchies, racism & "zero-sum game" logic, letting go of our place in a hierarchy, clinical vs political contexts, avoidance, splitting & status threat.

Bio lifted from the New School for Social Research:
"Dr. Gaztambide’s scholarship centers on psychoanalysis and Liberation Psychology, race, class and culture in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Puerto Rican racial identity and colonialism, comparative approaches to psychoanalysis, psychotherapy integration, and the psychology of religion."

Part of a series of interviews with experts on mental health, culture & personality disorders.

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[SHIVAAAA]

This interview was so powerful for many different reasons. Thank you for showing us what mental health journalism can be.

[lindarosebuchanan]

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. You honored your mother and now you gift the world with your knowledge. I really needed to hear this, and will be studying and learning from you. Thank you.

[poexpo]

This feels like Borderliner Notes breakthrough video from mental health to philosophy. This can be a powerful and meaningful road. Keep going. More please.

[tayaotto]

Ok cool he stated the unethical things Freud did. I'm glad for the pro/con evaluation and the modern uses of it. 👏

[d.nakamura]

this is a nice thought and all, but I think many of us have lost hope that the world and our societies will operate in this way. Too many people need to feel better than others, and ironically many of those same insecure people are the ones in charge and keeping things the way they are. To them it is a zero sum game, which is the way narcissists look at the world.

[cht]

Perfectionistic utopian thinking does not solve the natural 'rise and fall' of classes, cultures and families over time.

[Nobody-Nowhere]

Was it so much that it was what Freud wanted to be, or was it more that he understood that his ideas would not be taken seriously if he did not follow the formula?
Much like why he disregarded all the ideas of Carl Jung because he wanted people to take psychoanalysis seriously as a science.

[shadeassassin]

Freud is well known because of his ideals due to his exposure of deflective projection from his childhood development (gaslighting).

[fyonista]

I'm lost. Who and what is he talking about?

[erich]

I just gave up my cushy work from home nepotism job to go work at Walmart. So far so good! Less anxiety.

[mrtanyaaaaa]

What does this guy do to recognise his privilege? What does psychology do to recognise the impact of racism, sexism, homophobia? Why is this asking minority groups to teach the privileged? And criticising that they don’t do it well enough. It shouldn’t be the responsibility of the under privileged.