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Current Reads at Mosaic
Welcome to our Staff Picks page! Here, we share what our team is reading, listening to, and watching. Sharing recommendations builds community and enriches lives. Discover your next favorite today!
(MTC has no affiliation with any of the books or authors.)
DECOLONIZING THERAPY: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice
By Jennifer Mullan Psy.D.
Synopsis
Weaving history and real-world stories, Dr. Jenn takes the reader on a poignant, powerful–and at times painful–journey to the root of why today’s mental health delivery system is broken and failing us. Critical historical and political analysis is masterfully mingled with a call for deep, ancestral, emotional work.
Decolonizing Therapy is for all practitioners who are willing to take an honest look inward. To find the places that colonization has permeated their minds and bodies. And firmly pull them out at the root.
This book is not just about what is broken. It is a hopeful invitation to co-create a new emotional health paradigm. To build something new while remembering, reclaiming, and restoring what was.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
By Matthew Walker, Ph.D.
Synopsis
Matthew Walker is on a mission to change our attitude about sleep with a book that aims to demystify what sleep is, warn us of the consequences of sleep deprivation, explain the fantastical world of dreams, and give us reliable and practical advice for helping society get more zzz’s. Learning why we sleep is a powerful wake-up call to those of us who have foolishly made forfeiting sleep routine.
- Synopsis by Tyler DeVries
Matthew Walker is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley, the Director of its Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, and a former professor of psychiatry at Harvard University. He has published over 100 scientific studies and has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nova, BBC News, and NPR’s Science Friday. Why We Sleep is his first book.
American Teenager: How Trans Kids are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
By Nico Lang
Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare are the voices of the people at the heart of this transgender and gender nonconforming kids themselves. For their groundbreaking new book, journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. Drawing on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities, American Teenager paints a vivid portrait of what it’s actually like to grow up trans today.
From the tip of Florida’s conservative panhandle to vibrant queer communities in California, and from Texas churches to mosques in Illinois, American Teenager gives readers a window into the lives of Wyatt, Rhydian, Mykah, Clint, Ruby, Augie, Jack, and Kylie, eight teens who, despite what some lawmakers might want us to believe, are truly just kids looking for a brighter future.
- Synopsis by Good Reads​
The Making of a Therapist
By Matthew Walker, Ph.D.
Synopsis
In The Making of a Therapist, it was my goal to offer students and beginning therapists a personal account of the inner journey and some of the conceptual learning involved in becoming an insightful and emotionally mature therapist. I focused especially on those things I wish someone had told me when I was beginning my training. The Making of a Therapist contains the practical advice, common-sense wisdom, and self-disclosure that practicing professionals have found to be the most helpful during their own training.