1st Edition
Anti-Oppressive Psychotherapeutic Practice Finding Liberation Through Unlearning
1. Welcome To The Is-Ness Part I. Disrupting Neocortical Supremacy 2. Historical Context 3. Scaled Up Societies Part II. Reconnecting to and Engaging the Limbic 4. Familial Execution 5. Personal Responsibility 6. Cultural Evolution 7. The Is-Ness Part II Part III. Practice Limbic Resonance 8. Shaping Cultural Evolution 9. Colluding with Liberation
Biography
Florie St. Aime (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker from Brooklyn, NY, and describes herself as a liberation-based clinician. She invites others into liberation practices through organizing/activism, group facilitation/workshops, counseling, holding sacred space and clinical supervision.
"This book is an offering and intervention that unearths the brutal legacy of violent ideologies and practices underpinning the field of “mental health” while illuminating the path for mental health practitioners to reclaim our collective humanity. St. Aime takes us on a sacred journey of disruption, transformation and embodiment in this powerful work. May we commit to unlearning and divesting from oppressive systems to seed collective liberation."
Erica Woodland, LCSW founding director of National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network and co-author of Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety.
"Be ready for this extraordinary book to engage you in a way that others have not. Beneath its brilliant prose and broadly incisive analysis, this book offers an invitation into something even more profound: a new way of being present. While reading it, I felt an earth-rattling resonance with its spellbinding song of vulnerability, rootedness, heartbreak, unlearning, radical embodiment, and an utterly cleareyed sense of possibility. And I felt it throughout all of me. Something we deeply need waits within these pages."
Bill Brennan, PhD, author of EMBARK Psychedelic Therapy: A New Approach for the Whole Person
"Florie St. Aime is a pioneer in the mental health field. Any mental health professional who is willing to expand their awareness beyond traditional psychology will find the embodied concepts in “Unlearning” extremely useful as they hold a healing, liberating, sympathetic space for themselves and their clients."
Kylea Taylor, author of The Ethics of Caring, Founder of InnerEthics®
