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Not all revolutions begin in the street. Sometimes, they start in the psychotherapy office, on the couch. Psychotherapy needs a revolution. Historically, its goal has been to accommodate individuals to oppressive social systems. In this revealing and timely book, practicing psychotherapist, Silvia Dutchevici, provides a long-overdue social-justice model for therapy aiming toward liberation and personal agency. In Critical Therapy: Power and Liberation in Psychotherapy, patients and therapists are invited to look closely at ways power works in relationships. Drawing on liberation psychology scholarship and a decade of practice, Dutchevici examines how the therapeutic relationship itself is shaped by issues-such as money, race, class, and gender-often considered taboo. In offering more than comfort and insight, critical therapy supports patients as they awaken their own transformative power; create collaborative relationships, workspaces, and environments; and come to see themselves as agents of change in a still unfinished democracy. Written in simple and concise language, Critical Therapy is a must-read for anyone who has had, is thinking of having, or is practicing psychotherapy.

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Critical Therapy is a clarion call for the therapy of our times: a just, integrative practice that refuses to treat patients outside the context of their political and social reality. This is the pathway to true individual and collective wellness. Crucial reading for therapists and patients alike. - V (formerly Eve Ensler) Author of The Vagina Monologues and The Apology Dutchevici dives headlong into two controversial topics that mainstream therapists more often push aside than address: the centrality of love and the significance of money in the therapeutic relationship. This book will lead to many conversations that need to be had. - Dennis Fox, Ph.D, Emeritus Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Psychology, University of Illinois at Springfield; Co-founder, Radical Psychology Network; Co-editor, Critical Psychology: An Introduction Critical Therapy is a beautifully written book that is essential reading for clinicians working with a diverse population. - Carmen Inoa Vazquez, Ph.D., ABPP, Clinical Psychologist As a liberation social worker, when I read the first chapter of Critical Therapy my heart leapt: This is the book we've been waiting for! Silvia crafts a clear map of how critical therapy honors the lived experience of those engaging in therapy, including the intersectional trauma of intergenerational violence and structural oppression. - Catherine Shugrue dos Santos, MSW, anti-violence activist and educator Critical Therapy is an accessible, important, must-read text for mental health professionals. It identifies the ways one can integrate a relational approach with critical consciousness in therapy and practice logistics. - Candice Nicole Hargons, PhD, Associate Professor University of Kentucky and Director, Center for Healing Racial Trauma This is a beautifully written and inspiring book that includes socio-economic aspects of Critical Therapy, and makes connections between worker rights, economic equity and mental health. - Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Ph.D., Professor at John Jay College City University of NY; Author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice This book lays out innovations in therapy that mirror respectful relations between human beings. Training therapists to help people grapple with how power, systems, and politics affect our mental health is going to change many lives. Rinku Sen - Executive Director, Narrative Initiative, Author of Stir Up and Accidental American

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Silvia M. Dutchevici, MA, LCSW, is president and founder of the Critical Therapy Institute. A trained psychotherapist, Dutchevici, created critical therapy on perceiving a need for the theory and practice of psychology to reflect how race, class, gender, and religion intersect with psychological conflicts. She is a founding board member of Black Women's Blueprint and a member of the Physicians for Human Right's Asylum Network, where she conducts psychological evaluations documenting evidence of torture and persecution for survivors fleeing danger in their home countries. She trained at the Bellevue/NYU Survivors of Torture Program, the Parent Child Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, and the New York Freudian Society. Dutchevici has a master's degree in social work from New York University and a master's degree in psychology from the New School, and a bachelor's degree in religious studies and political science from Fordham University. She has lectured and presented throughout the country on critical therapy, including at Fordham and NYU, and has been featured in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, The Guardian, International Business Times, and Women's Health.

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