FromĀ Routledge: InĀ hisĀ recent bookĀ Jung and Sex, Edward Santana explores the role that therapists can play in illuminating and deepening human complexities as well asĀ addressing the long history of LGBTQ oppressionĀ within the mental health field.
“To lead a psyche-led life, an attunement to the soul, requires living as oneās authentic self in a greater engagement with complexities, not less. Jung, among others, pointed the way for deepening the value of inner life and its many mysteries. Reductionism, however, is oppressionāand oppression does not serve the soul. As therapists, our work is to move beyond reductionism, to host the polymorphic spirit and its illuminating complexities. Given the history of the mental health field and its sanctioned discrimination of the LGBTQ community, this is especially critical. Consciously or not, its historical effects remain. Mental health professionals have much work to do to systemically address the long legacies of its foundersā treatment of oppressed communities, and Jung and Sex offers another step in that important direction.”