Critical Therapy | Silvia M. Dutchevici in conversation with Vileti ‘Akolo
Mon, Sep 19
|Crowdcast
Join us to celebrate the debut of CRITICAL THERAPY!


Time & Location
Sep 19, 2022, 7:00 PM
Crowdcast
About the Event
About the Book
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…