RECORDING: Rethinking American Indian Mental Health Services: Explorations in Alter-Native Psy-ence

November 07, 2025

In this talk, Professor Joseph P. Gone explores how Indigenous perspectives can reshape understandings of mental health, challenging Western psychiatric frameworks and reframing “mental health” concerns as postcolonial disorders.

Featuring:

Speaker: Joseph P. Gone, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine; Faculty Director of the Harvard University Native American Program
Moderator: Vikram Patel, M.B.,B.S., Ph.D., Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Blavatnik Institute’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

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