Joseph Patrick Gone is an American psychologist. He is a professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine at

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. In 2021, Gone was elected a member of the

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"for being a leading figure among Native American mental health researchers whose work on cultural psychology, historical trauma, Indigenous healing, and contextual factors affecting mental health assessment and treatment has been highly influential and widely recognized."

Early life and education

Gone was raised in

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with his adoptive mother as a member of the

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tribe. Following high school, he enrolled at

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in Oklahoma before joining the United States Army. While serving in the military, Gone met several officers who recommended he attend the

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, West Point. He attended West Point before transferring to

for his undergraduate degree in psychology. Upon completing his degree, Gone spent a year working on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation with his biological family while applying to graduate school. During his time on the reservation, Gone wrote health compliance procedures and administrative policies, worked in the vocational education program, and provided academic and career counseling for tribal college students. He eventually earned his PhD in clinical-community psychology at the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

in 2001. During his graduate training, he served as the Charles A. Eastman Dissertation Fellow at

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. His thesis was titled "Affect and its disorders in a Northern Plains Indian community: issues in cross-cultural discourse and diagnosis."

Career

Upon completing his PhD, Gone joined the faculty at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. In 2014, Gone was awarded a

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to continue his advocacy on integrating indigenous healing practices into clinical mental health practices. He also used the fellowship to write his book "Rethinking American Indian Mental Health." The following year, he was named a fellow of the

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. In 2019, Gone left the University of Michigan to become a professor of global health and social medicine in the Blavatnik Institute at

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and faculty director of the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP). In 2021, Gone was elected a member of the

Personal life

Gone is married to Tiya Miles, a fellow academic.

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