De-stigmatizing Mental Health, Trauma, Externalizing, and Narratives - Ars Cryptotica - Episode 4
In episode 4, special guest John Kiweewa, who plays a dual-role as both a university professor and a practicing therapist, discusses the fascinating St. John Fisher Mental Health Project that he has been working on with Art For Anarchists to help trauma sufferers express themselves, and start their healing process.
Topics covered include:
00:10 Refinable Launches
00:33 John Kiweewa
04:15 Trauma
06:53 Psychosocial Support
08:51 Trauma - Further Discussed
11:45 Symptoms Become Diagnosis / Oversimplified
12:04 Not Properly Diagnosed / Treating the Symptoms, not the Cause
14:20 Survive and Thrive
15:08 Shame – felt when we violate the social norms we believe in
16:06 Intangible Things
18:39 More on Shame and Shaming
19:11 The Importance of Narrative in the Public Space
21:39 Symbols and Metaphors
24:21 Externalization
27:12 Few Windows to See What is going on Internally with Anybody
27:44 Trauma - Revisited
28:40 Prompts - Used in Therapy
29:17 Art Therapy
33:03 Homelessness
34:25 Transforming Stigma into Stimulation
37:38 Making Mental Health Visible in Society
38:15 Stimulate Conversations and Dialogue
39:41 Symbolism and Metaphor - Revisited
40:59 No Predetermined Interpretations
42:07 Bearing Witness
42:59 How to Structure the Prompts
44:35 Mental Health Challenges as Lived Experiences
46:30 To Bear Witness - Revisited
48:28 What is art?
49:13 A Therapist is a Traveller on a Journey, not Merely on a Trip
52:28 Externalization - Revisited
54:19 Mental Health Disorders are now Seen as Identities
57:09 Shattering Prisons of Privacy
57:30 The Notion of Vulnerability
1:01:04 Mental Health Stigmas in Uganda
1:02:49 Reframing the Narrative about Narrative Therapy
1:05:04 Summary of the Interview
1:06:45 Rorschach Inkblot Prints
1:08:42 Wrapping Up
1:09:27 How this Conversation will be Valuable to the NFT Space
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