Unruly Therapeutic
Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room
Book • 2023
Foluke Taylor’s Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room, delivers an archive of Black feminisms that are leveraged to explore certain psychoanalytic truths.
This ambitious trajectory is however delightfully embedded within a text that also includes the potential of musical accompaniment.
Taylor prompts us to tune into Billy Paul, Sault, Norman Connors and many other musicians.
The book depends in part on the author’s personal reflections that in their tenderness read as rather different from auto theory.
Rather there are aspects of her history that beautifully accompany and highlight what is a heart-rending treatise about the lay of the land traversed by Black women who seek to train to become clinicians and by Black women who come to lie on the couch.
This ambitious trajectory is however delightfully embedded within a text that also includes the potential of musical accompaniment.
Taylor prompts us to tune into Billy Paul, Sault, Norman Connors and many other musicians.
The book depends in part on the author’s personal reflections that in their tenderness read as rather different from auto theory.
Rather there are aspects of her history that beautifully accompany and highlight what is a heart-rending treatise about the lay of the land traversed by Black women who seek to train to become clinicians and by Black women who come to lie on the couch.
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Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
