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African-American clinical psychologist

Na'im Akbar is a clinical psychologist well known for his Afrocentric approach to psychology. He is a distinguished scholar, public speaker, and author.^[1] Akbar entered the world of Black psychology in the 1960s, as the Black Power Movement was gaining momentum.^[2] In the 1970s, Akbar published his first critiques of the Eurocentric psychological tradition, asserting that this model maintained the intellectual oppression of African Americans.

Akbar criticized the pathology perspectives that had taken over as the dominant literature on African Americans.^[3] Many of his major works involved mental health among African Americans.

Biography

Na’im Akbar, originally named Luther Benjamin Weems Jr., was born on April 26, 1944, in Tallahassee, Florida.^[1] He attended the Florida A & M University Laboratory School, an all-Black school, from kindergarten through high school, and graduate