Arnoldo Cantú, LCSW, is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with experience in school social work, private practice, and currently working in community mental health, seeing children, adolescents, families, and adults. Cantú was born in Mexico and considers Texas home, having grown up in the Rio Grande Valley, though he currently resides in the beautiful city of Fort Collins, located in northern Colorado. He is the lead editor of a trio of volumes in the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series titled Theoretical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Disorder Labeling, Practical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Illness, and Institutionalized Madness: The Interplay of Psychiatry and Society’s Institutions. He's written critically not only about the idea of so-called mental disorder, but also about the idea of race categories. Find his portfolio here.
Around the time I was writing this, I had just finished reading Amanda Montell’s fascinating and hugely popular 2021 book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. I had also read some reviews, one of them being this blog post written by Brittany Shields in which she suggests that “Of all the cultish groups Montell mentions, she […]
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