The Miseducation of Thomas Lee Crockett: A Mental Health Love Letter to the Black Community (PB) (2026)

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 weaves together individual wellness, family dynamics, and the social/historical context that makes mental health in the Black community both unique and particularly important. This isn't some abstract psychology textbook written by an old white man a hundred years ago-this is therapy by, about, and for the Black community of today. Each chapter blends mental health terms, cultural references, and lessons learned from Lee's own life: growing up in Mississippi in a toxic family, losing his mother to a long battle with 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