Policing in the Mental Health Industry with Ji-Youn Kim & Gabes Torres

Ji-Youn (she/her) is a justice-oriented therapist of Corean ancestry, located in what is colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. With collective liberation as her vision, she aims to disrupt oppressive practices of the mental health industry and its complicities, and envision new ways of mental health care rooted in abolition and community. She also deeply believes in embodied joy, ease, and liberation while in the pursuit of collective liberation. 

Follow Ji-Youn on @itsjiyounkim

Thank you to Ellen Cline and Bryan Brown for offering their wisdom in sharing how they practice antiracism and decolonizing work in their clinical and healing practices.

RESOURCES

adrienne maree brown - Emergent Strategy

Travis Heath - Radicalizing Psychotherapy: From Multiculturalism to Abolition

If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide

@SocialWorkersCanKissMyAss

Todd, N. & Wade, A. (1994). Parallel objectifying practices: Domination, deficiency and psychotherapy. Calgary: The Calgary Participator. 

https://decolonizeeverything.org/

Music in the episode by: https://www.bensound.com