Endorsing Black Men, Trauma & Therapy: A Necessary and Transformative Intervention

I am pleased to offer my endorsement of the new book Black Men, Trauma & Therapy: Revolutionising Therapeutic Thought and Practice, published by PCCS Books and edited by Helen P. George and Dr Dwight Turner.

This book arrives at a critical moment. Mental health systems in the UK continue to fail Black men through misdiagnosis, over‑surveillance and culturally inadequate care. Despite being disproportionately represented in both the criminal justice and mental health systems, Black men remain the least likely group to access talking therapies, due to deep structural, cultural and historical barriers 1.

What makes Black Men, Trauma & Therapy particularly powerful is that it centres the lived experience of Black male therapists themselves. This is the first UK‑published text to bring together leading Black male practitioners writing directly about their therapeutic work with Black male clients today 1. The contributors write not only with professional authority, but from the depth and complexity of their own Black identities. Their reflections are rooted in lived reality, challenging the marginalisation of Black knowledge within mainstream therapy and academia.

The book directly confronts anti‑Blackness and Afriphobia embedded within institutions and therapeutic frameworks, while also restoring agency. Black men are not positioned merely as subjects of analysis, but as producers of knowledge, insight and solutions. Drawing on intersectional thinking, European psychotherapeutic theory, social constructionism and, crucially, African ancestral beliefs and healing traditions, the contributors show what becomes possible when therapy is grounded in shared cultural understanding and historical awareness 1.

More than a critique, this book is a call to action. It demands that the talking therapy professions listen differently, think differently, and ultimately practise differently. In that sense, it is both radical and necessary.

I strongly recommend Black Men, Trauma & Therapy to practitioners, educators, students, policymakers and anyone committed to equity, justice and transformation in mental health.

Black Men, Trauma & Therapy: Revolutionising Therapeutic Thought and Practice is published by PCCS Books and available: Here