Book: Learning Whiteness – Arathi Sriprakash, Jessica Gerrard & Sophie Rudolph
On January 2, 2023 by sarmientoveranoWhat is this book about? The process of learning and internalising whiteness with a focus on how this educational project works in a settler colonial state such as Australia, including
Book: Class and Psychoanalysis – Joanna Ryan
On November 21, 2022 by sarmientoveranoWhat is this book about? The emotional and psychic processes of class and classism. Main topics explored: What is radical/new/different about it? The level of interdisciplinary thinking. Unlike most therapeutic
Dialogue is STILL not enough: further thoughts on power and multicultural therapy
On October 5, 2022 by sarmientoveranoI wrote about the idea of dialogue, dialogical relationship and working across cultures in psychotherapy a year and a half ago. In fact, it is that post that started this
Defensive Minds: harm across neuro-cognitive difference
On June 21, 2022 by sarmientoveranoBy: Lucia Sarmiento Verano Image credit: https://unsplash.com/@joshriemer Disclaimer: Please know that I am in no position to talk about neurodivergent experiences. I can only write from my own perspective as
Economic Migration and Disenfranchised Processes, an Exorcism Exercise
On April 18, 2022 by sarmientoveranoBy: Lucia Sarmiento Verano I have his mouth. And his nose. I did not inherit my mom’s and grandma’s tiny, perfectly shaped along racist and Eurocentric standards, almost Germanic, highly
White (in)humanity in therapy: The Ulterior Message Of Selective Outrage
On March 10, 2022 by sarmientoveranoBy: Lucia Sarmiento Verano I’ve been silent for a while but I cannot let this be. This is sucking the life out of me so here goes what I have
The Abyssal Line and the Articulation of Oppressions
On November 8, 2021 by sarmientoveranoBy: Lucia Sarmiento Verano DISCLAIMER: This article’s aim is to present a particular perspective on different types of oppression and struggles as explained by certain decolonial & feminist thinkers. We
Epistemic Justice: Therapy as a Liberatory Practice
On August 20, 2021 by sarmientoveranoBy: Lucia Sarmiento Verano Can Therapy help us fight against Epistemic Injustice? I keep coming back to writing about perspectives different than the White European middle class one. I am
Deserved shame and the white anti-racist
On June 22, 2021 by sarmientoveranoBy: Lucia Sarmiento Verano “Accompaniment (and therapeutic work with someone from a more marginalised group), as well as allyship and engaging in social justice struggles as a privileged person needs
Addressing Cultural Shame
On May 3, 2021 by sarmientoveranoBy: Lucia Sarmiento Verano Shame is now a subject that is widely discussed as one of the most complex and deep processes we can go through in the therapy room.
