PREORDER DR. LASSITER’S NEW BOOK
Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist
A pointed critique of racism in the mental health field.
A story of resilience.
A way forward.
Frustrated with the narrowness of psychological studies, Dr. Lassiter calls for expanding the field beyond Freud and his peers to include long-overlooked healing traditions from Africa, Asia, and Latin America—practices centered on unity, balance, and collective well-being.
A powerful, provocative debut, HOW I KNOW WHITE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY feels like breaking bread with an impassioned friend who has much to say and question. And who does so with incisive humor and moving storytelling.
A publication of Legacy Lit / Hachette Book Group
Advance Praise
for How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories
“Pulling from his lived experience and his work as a psychologist, Lassiter breaks down how ‘whiteness’ operates as a mindset built on division and control. This bold and necessary book challenges us to name it, undo it, and begin the real work of healing. It’s a call toward collective liberation.”
CLAY CANE, New York Times bestselling author of The Grift
“This is the best book I’ve read in a long time. It’s so good that I wish I had written it. It corroborates the crazy-making experiences of Black Americans that are too often denied or dismissed as oversensitivity by the white power structure, and it offers strategies for surviving and thriving in an inhospitable world. Every conscientious American should read Dr. Lassiter’s brilliant book.”
DR. CARL HART, author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups
“Phew, this book! Damn! Every white person needs to read it.”
DR. COURTNEY TRACY, bestselling author of Your Unconscious Is Showing
“Dr. Lassiter’s fierce, funny, and furious diagnosis has changed how I think about the ways whiteness shapes the world—and myself. This book about the head is bursting with heart.”
BAYNARD WOODS, author of Inheritance
“Both insightful and personal, Dr. Lassiter’s provocative writing pushes past the dated trope of being another ‘Dear White People’ reaction—an empowering literary embodiment of Black resilience that’s timely and necessary.”
ERNEST OWENS, author of The Case for Cancel Culture
“Dr. Lassiter is prolific in his teachings and writings as he honors those who are often overlooked by the majority! I am super excited for the world to have a front row seat to learn how he manages his frustrations in a quest to decenter whiteness so all can live optimally as their fullest and authentic self.”
DR. AYANA JORDAN, Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine
“Providing readers a diagnostic of ‘whiteness’ finally gives us the language to describe that which we’ve known for so long as simply ‘crazy’ behavior. How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories is a balm, a testament, a cauldron of healing—stories for that which has plagued us for so long in this society.”
SHARRELL D. LUCKETT, PhD, author of Black Acting Methods
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