Paul Rhodes
My name is Paul Rhodes. I come to this project from a number of different perspectives. I have been a family therapist for most of my life, which is typically aligned with critical perspectives to mental health, particularly questioning the validity of a dominant medical model in favour of one that looks at social construction and relationships. It is from this tradition that I have come to be deeply dissatisfied with mainstream mental health practices, both now and in the past. Going back to my 20's however, my first job was as a special educator deinstitutionalizing Collaroy Hospital and supporting the community integration of people with intellectual disabilities. Lately as an academic I have been involved in a number of projects that can roughly be seen as critical; open dialogue, decolonising clinical psychology, climate psychology and other things.