We Need To Talk About Whiteness - with Guilaine Kinouani

Ep 38: Whiteness and mental health - Guilaine Kinouani is a French critical psychologist, feminist, therapist, equality consultant and award-nominated writer of the blog, RaceReflections.co.uk Her recent book “Living while black – The essential guide to overcoming racial trauma” draws on her over 15y of experience in psychotherapy and as an anti-racist educator in laying out therapeutic advice on how to understand and counter anti-black racism. It's been described as a "powerful wake up call" (Patrick Vernon). She joins me to talk racism as a public health concern, intergenerational trauma and how medicalised terminology can mask the harm of whiteness in the mental health sphere.