#64: Indigenous Mental Health, Suicide & Resistance (ft. Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos)

Max and Liam interview Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos, professor of psychology at University of Toronto to talk about indigenous resistance, critical suicidology and more. What are the historical and structural forces that have led to such high suicide rates within indigenous populations? Is the mainstream symptom model of psychology appropriate to understand this phenomenon, and suicide in general? Why are native and white male suicide rates so high (do privilege and oppression possibly come with similar psychic costs)? What kinds of "interventions" are effective in treating suicide, or are interventionist, individualistically focused approaches part of the problem?

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Dr. Ansloos' resources:

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffreyansloos

The Medicine of Peace - Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-medicine-of-peace

A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13634593211046845

NDN Coping Mechanisms: https://houseofanansi.com/products/ndn-coping-mechanisms

A History of My Brief Body: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/604086/a-history-of-my-brief-body-by-billy-ray-belcourt/9780735237780

In Defense of the Wastelands: https://moontimewarrior.com/2017/02/08/in-defense-of-the-wastelands-guts-magazine/

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