Current：Home > ScamsCan therapy solve racism? -MoneyBase
Can therapy solve racism?
View
Date：2025-04-17 10:34:09
Nearly 20% of Americans turned to therapy in 2020. Many of those people were looking to process some of the big, painful events they were living through, including the pandemic, a contentious election cycle, and of course, the summer's racial reckoning. But that had us wondering: What exactly can therapy accomplish? Can it mitigate the effects of racism? Help us undo how we internalize racial trauma? Today, we're sharing the stories of two Latinx people who tried to use therapy as a means to understand and combat anti-Blackness in their own lives.
veryGood！ (69457)
Related
- Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats
- As impeachment looms, Homeland Security secretary says his agency will not be distracted by politics
- Carl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in 'Rocky' movies, dies at 76
- Bill to enshrine abortion in Maine Constitution narrowly clears 1st vote, but faces partisan fight
- Where will Elmo go? HBO moves away from 'Sesame Street'
- What is code-switching? Why Black Americans say they can't be themselves at work
- Trial date set for white supremacist who targeted Black shoppers at a Buffalo supermarket
- Starting five: Cameron Brink, Stanford host UCLA in biggest women's game of the weekend
- Former Danish minister for Greenland discusses Trump's push to acquire island
- Congressional Democrats tell Biden to do more on abortion after Ohio woman's arrest
Ranking
- Trump's 'stop
- Trump's political action committees spent nearly $50 million on legal bills in 2023, filings show
- Shirtless Jason Kelce celebrating brother Travis gets Funko Pop treatment: How to get a figurine
- Carl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in 'Rocky' movies, dies at 76
- Are Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp down? Meta says most issues resolved after outages
- Tesla recalls over 2 million vehicles in US due to font size issue with warning lights
- Dog rescued after more than a week trapped inside shipping container in Texas port
- The U.S. created an extraordinary number of jobs in January. Here's a deeper look
Recommendation
Former Syrian official arrested in California who oversaw prison charged with torture
Judge dismisses election official’s mail ballot lawsuit in North Dakota
Alyssa Milano slams people trolling her son over sports team fundraiser: 'Horrid'
Grammys host Trevor Noah on what makes his role particularly nerve-wracking
New Zealand official reverses visa refusal for US conservative influencer Candace Owens
'Compassionate soul': 16-year-old fatally shot while 'play fighting' with other teen, police say
News website The Messenger shuts down after 8 months. See more 2024 media layoffs.
Extreme heat, wildfire smoke harm low-income and nonwhite communities the most, study finds