Mindy Fullilove

How do Main Streets contribute to our mental health? This intriguing question took social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove on an 11-year search through 178 cities in 14 countries. As Andy Merrifield notes in the foreword, “Mindy has drifted through a lot of Main Streets, walked them, observed, talked to people, ordinary people as well as professional practitioners." Now available for purchase.

In 2018, to mark the 400th anniversary of the first recorded arrival of enslaved Africans to American shores, Mindy Fullilove worked with her class at the New School to create a timeline of inequality in the United States, incorporating the narratives of a range of marginalized groups. Their purpose was to visualize the ecology of inequality, situating its stories in time and space—in specific neighborhoods, laws, events, moments—and making the connections between them explicit in the hope of...

Celebrating the Power of Design and the Class of 2017

Trained as a psychiatrist, Mindy Thompson Fullilove now puts entire cities on the couch.

By ROBERT SULLIVAN
JUNE 23, 2015

A public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence.
Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, excessive police violence is also a profound violation of human and civil rights.
Most public discourse about excessive police violence ...

To heal a city, you must mend its fractures. Mindy Thompson Fullilove does just that in response to rapidly gentrifying New York City neighborhoods like Harlem and Washington Heights. Through her initiative Hike the Heights, she encourages citizens new and old to explore, appreciate and learn about all parts of the city they call home. TEDArchive presents previously unpublished talks from TED conferences. Enjoy this unedited talk by Mindy Thompson Fullilove. Filmed at TED@NYC 2013. NOTE: Comm...

For Dr. Mindy Fullilove, affirming the commitment to your community is an antidote to displacement and “root shock.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from “Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All,” by Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, published in September 2020 by New Village Press. Dr. Fullilove, who earlier this year presented a Next City webinar about her projects 400 Years of Inequality and the People’s Platform for Equity, here presents case studies to illustrate the power...

A sense of history and community tugged at the heart of Mindy Fullilove and pulled her back to the Jersey home she’d forsaken.

We present the history of the policies as they affected one urban neighborhood, Pittsburgh’s Hill District. We conclude by examining ways in which this problematic process might be addressed.

SOME YEARS AGO MAIN STREET WAS DECLARED DEAD, BUT THOSE DOOM-SAYERS NEED TO VISIT NEW JERSEY. FROM NORTH TO SOUTH, IN ALL THE 21 COUNTIES, MAIN STREET IS FLOURISHING. MY GOAL, IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, IS TO VISIT 100 MAIN STREETS IN NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK AND ELSE-WHERE. I'LL BE TRAVELING WITH FRIENDS AND POSTING MY FINDINGS ON THIS BLOG.

New York has long been notorious as the land of therapy, but as it turns out, even the city itself is sick enough (at least from an urban planning perspective), to need a psychiatrist. Her name: Mindy Thompson Fullilove, who works at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and teaches at Columbia University....

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