Tag Archives: Joy DeGruy
Healing Racial Trauma
Below is a 6:30 video showing a segment from Lenard McKelvey’s Comedy Central show Tha God’s Honest Truth. He’s taken the performance name Charlamagne Tha God, which explains the name of his comedy show, which sometimes takes on topics not … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity & Multiculturalism, Music & Media Podcasts, Social Change
Tagged Charlamagne tha God, DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Third Editionl, Joy DeGruy, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, PTSD, racial trauma, Resmaa Menakem
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
The five-minute VIDEO below shows Dr. Joy DeGruy explaining some of the central concepts of her idea of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS), a syndrome she locates as a species of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). You cannot heal from … Continue reading