The Miseducation of Thomas Lee Crockett: A Mental Health Love Letter to the Black Community

Want to better understand yourself and your relationships?

Want to learn how to navigate a world full of racism, homophobia, toxicity, and white supremacy while protecting your own sanity?

In this guidebook/memoir, marriage and family therapist Thomas Lee walks readers expertly through a wide range of mental health topics and tips for staying well in an unwell world. This isn't some abstract, hard-to-follow textbook written by an old white man a hundred years ago-this is therapy by, about, and for the Black community of today. Lee weaves together individual wellness, family dynamics, and the social/historical context that makes mental health in the Black community both unique and particularly important.

In each chapter you'll find a mix of mental health terms, cultural references, and lessons learned from Lee's own life: growing up in Arkansas in a toxic family, losing his mother to cancer, working in spaces steeped in white supremacy, wrestling with homophobia and misogyny to be his authentic self, and eventually finding his place in all of it: as a mental health therapist determined to bring love, hope, and wellness to the Black community.

Topics include:

Emotional suppression

Family dynamics

Toxic masculinity

Generational trauma

Systemic racism

Microaggressions in social, academic, and work spaces

Grief & Loss

Long-term illness

Mental illness

LGBTQIA+ & homophobia

Anxiety

And more

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wildling Press
Published: 06/30/2026
ISBN: 9781957833187
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d