
Reprioritizing Care Work: an Interview with Sandra VanderVen
Psychologies of Liberation by Ava Bravata Keating and Dr. James Norris
S1 · E2
Sep 29, 2023
40:24
Episode notes
This episode of Psychologies of Liberation features organizer and all-around excellent human, Sandra VanderVen. She describes her work mapping out a functional behavioral health ecosystem in Washington State. We discuss the ways in which we value and devalue mental health work, the links between psychiatric care and carceral systems, and the interdisciplinary nature of organizing and therapeutic work.
Keywords
therapy
unconditional love
liberation
psychology
mental health systems
mental health
abolition
decolonization
union organizing
labor organizing