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Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA Books have been my most loyal companions. I’ve been reading since I was old enough to understand that the world was bigger than my family, bigger than the town where I grew up, bigger even than the United States. Books were my way out and my way in. They taught me how to live, how to argue, how to be tender. They’ve never once ghosted me, though I’ve been guilty of ignoring them. Below are fifteen that shaped me. Not in some linear list, not as a c

Literature Review Acceptance / Motivation Inquiry (AMI) Lex E Santí, LCSW, MFA Introduction Client engagement in psychotherapy is a...

Reflection on Mourning in the Shadow of a Giant at Cornell By Lex Enrico Santí, LCSW, MFA On September 9, 2019, the Cornell community...

Lex E Santi, LCSW, MFA In the days after 9/11, there was a feeling in the United States that something irreversible had cracked open, not just buildings, not just lives, but the idea that war could ever be clean, swift, or justified by pain alone. We have been collectively fighting that system of fear and terror ever since. What followed: Afghanistan, Iraq, drone strikes, proxy wars, black sites, enhanced interrogations, the blank check of homeland security — taught us that v