This session explores why the process of racialisation is integral in understanding racism in mental health. To this liberal racism is contextualised in our current political climate, looking at how racism is made acceptable through policies and spaces, not individual prejudices. The War on Terror and security policies takes a central focus in this regard.
This session will also provide broader considerations for ethical issues regarding the location of politics in mental health.
This event is included in a series of seminars organised in collaboration with the Therapy and Social Change Network.
Course Content
Presenter
Dr Tarek Younis is the Racial Justice Researcher at HealingJusticeLdn and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University. He researches and writes on Islamophobia, racism in mental health, the securitisation of clinical settings and the politics of psychology. He teaches on the impact of culture, religion, globalisation, and security policies on mental health. As a registered clinical psychologist, he primarily attends to experiences of racism, Islamophobia, and state violence in his private practice. His book is called The Muslim, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia.
The Therapy and Social Change (TaSC) Network is a broad affiliation of people interested in exploring the interface between therapeutic ideas and practices and social justice perspectives and actions. We are interested both in the ways that counselling and psychotherapy can be practiced with social justice concerns in mind (for instance, tackling unconscious biases in the consulting room), and also in the ways that therapeutic principles and practices can be extended out to the wider social realm (for instance, developing social and emotional literacy in schools).
