gms | German Medical Science

Feminist therapy and Open Science are challenging hegemonial practices in therapy and academia. Both question hierarchical structures, include realities of multiply marginalized, and aim for Knowledge Equity. The talk provides a brief overview over diverse historical and contemporary concepts based on social justice, that are rarely to be found in Arts Therapies curricula and textbooks. It contemplates colonial continuities, the antipsychiatry movement, radical therapy, feminist therapy, and neurodiversity. It deals with the question, how therapy and research can be thought intersectionally, collaboratively, and community-based. Open Science practices, such as science communication and citizen science, as well as issues of Knowledge Equity are discussed as powerful tools against capitalist patriarchal power dynamics. This leads to the key question: How can we challenge normativities of the mind and collaboratively start to develop strategies towards an intersectional eutopia in Arts Therapies and academia.