Dr joy degruy leary biography

2005 theoretical book by Joy DeGruy Leary

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing is a 2005 theoretical work by Joy DeGruy Leary.^[1] The book argues that the experience of slavery in the United States and the continued discrimination and oppression endured by African Americans creates intergenerational psychological trauma, leading to a psychological and behavioral syndrome common among present-day African Americans, manifesting as a lack of self-esteem, persistent feelings of anger, and internalized racist beliefs.

The book was first published by Uptone Press in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2005, with a later re-release by the author in 2017.

Post traumatic slave syndrome

Expanding on a hypothesis of "post-traumatic slavery syndrome" (PTSS) by psychiatrist Alvin Francis Poussaint and journalist Amy L. Alexander, DeGruy wrote in her 2001 doctoral thesis that African Americans "sustained a traumatic About - Dr.

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