Online Book Launch: Black Men, Trauma & Therapy

Saturday 2 May 2026

Black Men, Trauma & Therapy:

Revolutionising Therapeutic Thought & Practice

This online launch celebrates the release of Black Men, Trauma & Therapy: Revolutionising Therapeutic Thought & Practice.

Edited by our founder, Helen P George, alongside, Dr Dwight Turner and published by PCCS BOOKS LTD – and inspired by our 2023 Community Trauma conference, Black Men, Trauma and Mental Health

Book summary

This unique book is the first UK-published text to showcase the pioneering work of Black male therapists with Black male clients today. The leading Black male practitioners gathered here describe the thinking, theories and conceptualisations of Blackness and masculinity that underpin their practice and how they apply these in their meetings with clients: cishet, trans, gay and straight. 

Black Men, Trauma and Therapy is the companion text to the top-selling book Black Women, Trauma and Therapy, edited by Helen P. George and also published by PCCS Books.

Contents

Foreword – Eugene Ellis

Introduction: When therapy challenges the social construction of black men – Helen P. George and Dwight Turner

1. My history is in my skin: Understanding the mental health needs of black men in the UK over the past 45 years – Rotimi Akinsete

2. Black men in academia: A dialogue – Divine Charura and Dwight Turner

3. Coming out: The trials, tribulations and transformations – Wayne Michael Mertins-Brown

4. When professionals get it wrong: Understanding trauma and PTSD among black men who experience community violence – Ron Dodzro

5. Twelve tales: African diasporan men, sexual violations and the redemption of soulful potency – Joel Simpson

6. Trauma and resistance: Black men in Britain through an Afropessimist lens – Baffour Ababio

7. Black men and psychosis: Race, sexualisation and the failures of psychoanalysis – Charles Brown

8. On being black, trans and embodied – Ellis J. Johnson

9. Why SIZE matters: Working with black men’s narratives of trauma and mental health – Divine Charura, Delroy Hall and Talent Charura

10. From silence to empowerment: Decolonising trauma-informed therapeutic support for black queer men – Anthony Jay Davis

11. Black therapist(s) rising: Exploring the emergent intersectional psychotherapist in the therapeutic space – Dwight Turner