Unruly Therapeutic

Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room

De: Foluke Taylor

Narrado por: Foluke Taylor

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 listener 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.

©2023 Foluke Taylor (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

A book that I will come back to again and again - so full of compassion and wisdom and beauty

I loved listening to this book. Foluke’s voice is raspy and whispery, and it made for a wonderful companion in my long walks on Hampstead Heath.

I did have to turn the speed on to 1.5 to get to a natural cadence - so the book is shorter than it appears but that’s all beside the point.

It’s an inspiring and inspired reflection on *therapy, race, colonialism and ancestral trauma. More than that, though, it’s living, breathing philosophy.

I cannot recommend it enough!

Wonderful

I enjoyed every carefully chosen, beautifully spoken word. It helped me to think differently and more deeply about so many ideas (radical hospitality, I’m looking at you). It spoke to me as a therapist, as a Black, (B/b) female therapist, and as it turns out, as someone who had to also discover her ancestry. Thank you for this gift.