Unlearning Cultural Programming

Every culture hands its children a set of unwritten instructions on how to be a person. Some of those instructions are gifts. Some are weapons pointed at their own heart. Drawing on his training in anthropology, counseling psychology, and clinical practice — and on the hard-won results of rewriting himself from the inside out — Dr. Ragashanti walks audiences through the specific Jamaican cultural constructs he had to identify, name, and dismantle to build a productive and successful life. The cultural constructs were Jamaican. The mechanics of escape and successful evolution are universal.