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May 20, 2024
Tending To Our Brothers
“Men don’t fall from trees - they subscribe to societal messages, they follow rules,” says Dr. Shahieda Jansen, clinical psychologist, scholar in masculinities, and author of Masculinity Meets Humanity: An Adapted Model of Masculinized Psychotherapy....
“Men don’t fall from trees - they subscribe to societal messages, they follow rules,” says Dr. Shahieda Jansen, clinical psychologist, scholar in masculinities, and author of Masculinity Meets Humanity: An Adapted Model of Masculinized Psychotherapy.
In this episode Shahieda takes us through her own journey of research, practice and discovery, devising all-male group therapy that would re-integrate, re-contextualize, and pull back together elements that Western style psychology has compartmentalized, distorted and split apart.
Working from the creed that “the minute something is out of sync with its context, you're busy with lunacy”, Shahieda weaves together belief systems rooted in the cultures, histories and identities of the men with whom she works. She draws on ancient and vibrant African relational ethical philosophies and understanding of the self, combines it with the latest science from around the globe, and builds bridges across the divides we all are shaped by - ancient from modern, culture from science, thinking from feeling, men from women - self from others.
In this sweeping conversation we talk about Ubuntu, African identity and morality, Afro Eastern model of the self, Umoya, the ravages of colonization, the centrality of emotion, how “belonging is not recognized in the healing professions for the radicalness that it is”, and how Shahieda uses her wholeness approach to tend to the men in her all-male therapy groups.
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Credits
Host: Elle Kamihira
Produced by Elle Kamihira
Audio Engineering by Jason Sheesley at Abridged Audio
Cover Art by Bee Johnson
Music by Beware of Darkness
Dr. Shahieda Jansen
Clinical Psychologist & Author
Clinical psychologist Dr. Shahieda Jansen previously managed the HPCSA accredited student counseling center of the University of the Western Cape, with oversight of counseling services to the student body and clinical supervision to master's level local and international psychology interns: 2008-2016.
Since October 2016 until the present, she is the Deputy Director of Academic & ICT Support at Unisa Western Cape.
Her clinical interests include the application of indigenous models of human nature and masculinized personal transformation for boys and men. Shahieda has been facilitating men’s groups, father-son interventions and individual therapy with boys and men for a decade and a half.
She is currently implementing a Unisa Western Cape region Community Engagement project: School Belonging for boys at two pilot schools in the Western Cape. In 2022 Unisa Press released her book, Masculinity Meets Humanity: An Adapted Model of Masculinised Psychotherapy.