{"id":3690,"date":"2013-11-26T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T07:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2013-11-26T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T07:57:58","slug":"interview-with-vanessa-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/26\/interview-with-vanessa-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Vanessa Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a title=\"Vanessa Jackson\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/vanessa-jackson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3691 alignleft\" alt=\"Vanessa Jackson\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/vanessa-jackson.jpg?resize=123%2C200\" width=\"123\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Interview with Vanessa Jackson who is an African-American women who shares with us her liberation journey. Her personal journey goes from trauma to power wounding. She is an activist and a &#8220;narrative\u00a0therapist&#8221;. In this interview she shows to be\u00a0quite critical with the traditional clinical approach to people who have been carrying wounds from systemic oppression, especially from inherited slavery. She says: &#8220;Dr. Cartwright was an expert in slave medicine and based on his observations and reports from overseers, he described a mental illness that caused slaves to run away from their natural condition of enslavement. As a pro-slavery advocate, Dr. Cartwright believed that such behavior could only be characterized as mental illness.\u00a0While this term sounds completely outrageous to us today,\u00a0I would argue that such terms as oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorders which are widely use to describe, medicate and incarcerate children and adolescents are modern day examples of pathologizing efforts to liberate oneself\u00a0and these labels blind us to the oppression that marginalized groups, like enslaved persons and children experience when they lack power and agency.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0 <a title=\"Vanessa Jackson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breathingforgiveness.net\/2013\/11\/anti-slavery-campaign-interview-series.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Full Text<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/i><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a title=\"Vanessa Jackson\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/vanessa-jackson-energy-compassion57.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3692\" alt=\"Vanessa Jackson ENERGY COMPASSION57\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/vanessa-jackson-energy-compassion57.jpg?resize=629%2C123\" width=\"629\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vanessa-jackson-energy-compassion57.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vanessa-jackson-energy-compassion57.jpg?resize=300%2C59&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Vanessa Jackson who is an African-American women who shares with us her liberation journey. Her personal journey goes from trauma to power wounding. She is an activist and a &#8220;narrative\u00a0therapist&#8221;. In this interview she shows to be\u00a0quite critical with the traditional clinical approach to people who have been carrying wounds from systemic oppression, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[77,944,1431],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-african-american-women","tag-mental-illness","tag-vanessa-jackson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}