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Decolonizing Therapy

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Having followed Dr. Mullan on Instagram for some time, I went into this book with some awareness of what I was entering into. She does not disappoint in longform, though there were plenty of lines/snippets that could easily be made into graphics for social media. She played to her strengths, and she clearly knows what they are. Content-wise, everything was as expected and delivered as promised. The formatting was interesting, and allows for portions of the book to be used in practice. There were a few topics/questions I was hoping she'd delve into that were briefly mentioned, if at all, but those are specifics that aren't necessarily of interest to a mass audience, so I get it. My minor qualm with the book (or perhaps more largely with the movement to decolonize various systems) is that sometimes in the passion and enthusiasm to present an alternative the Western-centric models, there can be an idealization of all indigenous and/or non-European cultural practices that start to sound like the "noble savage" trope. I can follow the pendulum swing and understand the reason for it, and hope to hold all the varied truths that allow us as mental health practitioners of any and all varieties to maintain critical lenses and most of all, pay attention and listen to the people we co-exist and work with for real-time input and collaboration.

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