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Contratherapy: Liberatory Praxis for Otherwise Worlds, A TaSC Seminar with Jon Massmann

Taking seriously the challenge to interrogate what our therapeutic practices are producing and reproducing, Contratherapy seeks to critically examine many of the basic modes of psychotherapy theory and practice, exploring how many of these modes both emerge from and actively reproduce oppressive social orders and the ways of thinking/feeling/being enmeshed with them. Taking a constructive abolitionist stance, it then seeks to propose other possible ways of thinking about and doing the work of ‘therapy’. Drawing on (among others) liberation psychology, anti-colonial theory, poststructuralist philosophies, anti-psychiatry, mad liberation, and ‘radical’ Black/Caribbean thought, Contratherapy seeks to unveil and unsettle many of the oppressive forces running through psychotherapy which (re)produce us as docile, fixed, and subjugated subjects – towards the aim of bringing about otherwise ‘psychotherapies’, otherwise persons, and otherwise worlds. The event will consist of presentation of some of the broad strokes and major ideas of Contratherapy, followed by a mutualized open discussion in which we might begin to think – and further build – it together.