The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples: Transformations of Identity and Community

By Laurence J. Kirmayer, G. Brass, Caroline L. Tait. Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 2000

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Deviant Constructions: How Governments Preserve Colonial Narratives of Addictions and Poor Mental Health to Intervene into the Lives of Indigenous Children and Families in Canada (2010, background): “Referred to by some as Canada’s “national crime” (Milloy 1999) and recognized by many others as perhaps one of the nation’s most egregious interventions into Indigenous peoples’ lives and social structures, residential schooling is now understood as an important contributor to the health disparities”
Indigenous Worldviews, Knowledge, and Research: The Development of an Indigenous Research Paradigm (2010, background): “…stemming from this perspective at best do not fit well either with Indigenous cultural values or the realities of Indigenous life (Gone, 2008; Kirmayer, Brass, & Tait, 2000; Weaver, 2008) and at worst are at the heart of psychological and philosophical imperialism (Calabrese, 2008; Duran &…”
From Invisibility to Transparency: Identifying the Implications (2008, background): “Nevertheless, the impacts of lost identity are devastating and highly correlated with such evils as teenage suicide, alcoholism and addiction, and violence (Kirmayer et al. 2000).”