Abstract
Practices, institutions, structures, and tools within the modern dominant western episteme produce and perpetuate conditions of suffering and ill-health for oppressed/subjected racialized groups. One such practice is psychology. Chapter 1 of this project aims to show that the modern dominant western episteme continues to allow for present oppression and subordination of certain racialized groups of people such as the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island through the consequences of colonialism: necro-being through the appeal to “objective” knowledge and reasoning attached to Man2 and the techno-industrial order of things. Chapter 2 argues that not only does the modern dominant western episteme result in the conditions faced by Indigenous peoples today, but perpetuates these conditions and ill-health faced by them through its influence within psychology as a practice and its constituents: American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the DSM. This perpetuation is exemplified through the non-inclusion of historical trauma within trauma- and stressor- related disorders. Consequently, chapter 3 of this project aims to provide a critique of the DSM by exemplifying the revisions and reconceptualizations within the DSM required for the necessary inclusion of historical trauma, in addition to exploring alternatives to both the DSM and treatment interventions. Chapter 4 of this project aims to convince viewers that while necessary to include the historical trauma within the DSM, real change will include the radical change and abolishment of the modern dominant western episteme and its practices, structures, institutions, and tools.
Advisor
McBride, Lee
Second Advisor
Karazsia, Bryan
Department
Philosophy; Psychology
Recommended Citation
Printup, Alix Joseph, "The Necessary Inclusion of Historical Trauma in Trauma-Based Diagnoses and Subsequent Alternative Therapies Informed by Decolonial Philosophy: Indigeneity as a Philosophia Nata Ex Conatu" (2023). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 10604.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/10604
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Clinical Psychology | Epistemology | Other Philosophy | Philosophy | Psychology
Keywords
Historical Trauma, Indigeneity, Philosophia nata ex conatu, Episteme
Publication Date
2023
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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