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Publications

Books

  1. Desai, M.U. (with a Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs). Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology: The World Outside the Clinic. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-57174-8
  2. Laubscher, L., Hook, D. & Desai, M.U. (Eds.) Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology. Routledge, 2022. https://www.routledge.com/Fanon-Phenomenology-and-Psychology/Laubscher-Hook-Desai/p/book/9780367471484

Select Peer-Reviewed Articles

  1. Desai, M.U., Paranamana, N., Restrepo-Toro, M., O’Connell, M., Dovidio, J. Davidson, L., & Stanhope, V. System-centered care: How bureaucracy and racialization decenter attempts at person-centered mental health care. Clinical Psychological Science, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221133053
  2. Desai, M.U., Guy, K., Brown, M., Thompson, D., Manning, R., Johnson, S., Davidson, L., & Bellamy, C. “That was a state of depression by itself dealing with society”: Atmospheric racism, mental health, and the Black and African American faith community. American Journal of Community Psychology, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12654
  3. Vescey, L., Yoon, J., Rice, K., Parco Group, Davidson, L., Desai, M.U.. A return to lived experiencers themselves: Participatory action research of and by psychosocial clubhouse members. Frontiers in Psychology, 2023. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.962137/full
  4. Desai, M.U., Laubscher, L., & Johnson, S. Perspectives (of people of color) on psychological science: Does psychological science listen? Review of General Psychology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680221118038
  5. Desai, M. U., Paranamana, N., Restrepo-Toro, M., O'Connell, M., Davidson, L., & Stanhope, V. Implicit organizational bias: Mental health treatment culture and norms as barriers to engaging with diversity. American Psychologist, 2021, 76(1), 78-90. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-15672-001
  6. Desai, M.U., Manning, R., Pavlo, A.J., Blackman, K., Ocasio, L., Crespo, M., & Flanagan, E. An “oasis within a desert,” but the desert remains: Clubhouse members’ experiences of social belonging and societal oppression. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2021, 91, 294-301. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000539
  7. Desai, M.U., Bellamy, C., Guy, K., Costa, M., O’Connell, M.J., & Davidson, L. “If you want to know about the book, ask the author”: Enhancing community engagement through participatory research in clinical mental health settings. Behavioral Medicine, 2019, 45, 177-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2019.1587589
  8. Desai, M.U., Pavlo, A.J., Davidson, L., Harpaz-Rotem, I., & Rosenheck, R. Context matters: Social, cultural, and political dimensions of PTSD among Vietnam veterans. Journal of Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 2019, 20, 113-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1559-4343.20.2.113
  9. Desai, M.U., Wertz, F.J., Davidson, L., & Karasz, A. An investigation of experiences diagnosed as depression in primary care--from the perspective of the diagnosed. Qualitative Psychology, 6(3), 268–279. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000129
  10. Desai, M.U. Psychology, the psychological, and critical praxis: A phenomenologist reads Frantz Fanon. Theory & Psychology, 2014, 24, 58-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354313511869