someone at the anti carceral suicide training talked about how in order to be a therapist who actually supports your clients you have to be comfortable with breaking the law. Also, how important it is for therapists to understand that despite their individual values and the benefit they bring their clients, the whole system of psychiatry and therapy is entwined with incarceration, racism, and capitalism. And to actually confront that, therapists need to commit to breaking mandatory reporting laws and not incarcerate any of their clients.
And I’ve just been thinking about this all day, and how a lot of times therapy is presented as a neutral or inherently beneficial system when in truth it is often a system of violence. it’s been very powerful for me to be in these spaces with mental healthcare providers who are doing the work to figure out how to radically change the system.
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Here’s a link where you can get zoom recordings of that training btw! They ask for a suggested donation but are also completely fine with people accessing it for free and do not want to create barriers to access.
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