Goodreads asked Initially NO:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Initially NO Be passionate and recognise what you're missing. Be particularly understanding of civil rights movements. If you write something that doesn't take into account what the civil rights movements are saying. It is about the people with experience, not the people who are placed as 'experts' on another's experiences. Your book will be tossed off shelves in years to come when your words are akin to racism, if you don't take into account survivors of torture, who will find psychiatrist views and psychiatrisms offensive.

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