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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Marie Arendt
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Psychology

UNRULY THERAPEUTIC

Foluke Taylor

Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room

This title reveals how centering the experiences of black women allows for richer therapeutic practices for everyone.

"Black feminisms have provided a foundation from which it becomes more possible to speak and write of interconnection - of a spirited life, soul, a natural mystic blowing through the air - and engagement with all of this in therapeutic practice." Part thesis, part memoir, and part poetry, this book is unlike any other therapeutic text. Psychotherapist and writer Foluke Taylor explores how the centering of black women's experiences in therapeutic scholarship allows for greater space - space for wandering, for wondering, and for deepening narratives - in every therapeutic relationship. Beginning with the book's poetic structuring, Taylor rejects the need for a streamlined solution, instead inviting the reader to take a different path through her crucial research - one that is unruly, nonlinear, and celebratory of the richer, fuller narratives allowed for by black feminisms. Foluke Taylor is a psychotherapist, writer, teacher, and parent living in the histories and fluid geographies of Black diaspora and is currently based in London.

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Book Published 2023-02-28 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA)

Comments

Foluke Taylor has released herself from the moorings of business-as-usual therapeutic practice taught and framed within neoliberal thinking and instead forays into the nonlinear and the unruly. The result is genuinely refreshing and liberating. As you read, what emerges is a sense of adventure, a sense of soul connection, and a deep appreciation for other ways of knowing.

Unruly Therapeutic provided new insights into my own experience of therapy; what has 'worked' and what hasn't, what resonated and why. Taylor's use of black feminisms, in both theory and praxis, shows that the therapeutic can be found in other ways of reading, writing, seeing, listening, knowing, and being. This book is life-giving. It made me feel seen, understood, unruly. I look forward to reading it again and again.