Eugene Ellis is the Director and founder of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN), the UK's largest independent organisation to specialise in working therapeutically with Black, African, Caribbean and South Asian people. He is also a psychotherapist with a special interest in body-orientated therapies and in facilitating dialogue around race and mental wellbeing through articles, podcasts and blog posts as well as within organisations and psychotherapy trainings.
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"This book has been written to help us take an honest look at who we really are. It is here to help us dig deep. It is here to heal the nation. I'm no psychotherapist, but I get it. Benjamin Zephaniah "Eugene's conversational and accessible style is music to my ears. He offers us a language to describe our experiences of race conversations and ways to change their outcomes. This book is an inspiration and an awakening for everyone, the young, the old, teachers, social workers, carers, politicians, and decision-makers. Read and feel free." Jazzie B., OBE "When the history of therapy's engagement with 'race' and diversity comes to be written, Eugene Ellis will be one of the most important figures in the narrative. In this book he confirms his standing as a leading theorist as well as an activist. The innovative strength of the book lies in its focus on the body - on how the race construct and its traumas are held in the bodies of people of colour and also of the white majority." Professor Andrew Samuels, former Chair, UK Council for Psychotherapy