Dina McMillan, PhD, is an American social psychologist and academic currently based in Brisbane, Australia. She specialises in domestic abuse prevention and effective bias reduction. In 2020 Dina developed a unique programme called Healing the Rift, designed to reduce racism and other types of bias without using blame-and-shame methods that may increase divisions and exacerbate intolerance. In this episode, we discuss the chapter Dina authored in the book, Cynical Therapies – Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice. Critical Race Theory is being personified as a client at a counsellor’s clinic. Dina describes the characteristics of Critical Race Theory, and the kind of character it requires to be sustained. We also discuss better, common humanity alternatives to CRT. https://drdinamcmillan.com

[…] are by their very nature antithetical to the therapy endeavour (for example see Sherwood and McMillan’s discussions of their book chapters on CRT; Jon Mills on white supremacy and […]