This paradigm-shifting work, written by a Harvard-educated physician and social engineer, is expected to have a dramatic impact on individuals, academia, and society.

This book is about how to heal and deliver you from shame and social oppression.

This is the first in-depth inquiry into the core of human suffering, from the combined perspectives of the biological, social and political sciences. You will learn how to exit from the cage of all forms of oppression and victimization-Or recognize when you are becoming prey, and get out of it quickly. You will experience a deep healing process that is built into this book's flow and structure, along with expertly crafted somatic exercises based on trauma therapy.

Shame was genetically wired into the human brain for our survival in prehistoric times. But, today, if shame is culturally perpetuated, it becomes toxic starting in infancy, and significantly alters the natural balance of the most evolved part of the brain-the prefrontal lobes- to achieve full toxicity by the early 20's. Systematic, yet unrecognized, forms of abuse maintain toxic shame in socialized adults. When abuse occurs at a sufficient frequency or intensity, trauma manifests as widespread brain malfunction. And a population that is traumatized is easily oppressed.

My vision, which transcends writing this book, is to create social change.

The book presents a treatise that may lead to a paradigm shift affecting the social and political sciences, economic theory, and biomedicine. "Overcoming Oppression" is also an activist's dream model for creating mass resistance to oppressive institutions. We labor under the yolk of social and political oppression on a global scale, and social change is required. This happens naturally when enough people understand the urgent need for reform, and this work represents a grand leap towards educated action.

This book examines issues such as the true roots of most physical and emotional disease, racial prejudice and homophobia, predatory relationships and love, childrearing practices and educational systems, criminal justice and addiction, religion and self-sabotage, seniorhood and death. Special emphasis is given to the growing schism of wealth and neoslavery under the rule of a self-serving corporate elite, driven by an insatiable greed for concentrating more and more wealth in the hands of the very few.
About the Author: Biosketch:
Michael Holloway King, M.D.

Michael King, MD, is a graduate of The Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and Harvard Medical School, and he has had over four decades of experience in both healthcare and communication skills. He has a long-standing love for the social and political sciences- especially bio-personality, consciousness, and neuropsychiatry. His vast cross-cultural work and international health experience prepared him to explore a global spectrum of human nature.

Dr. King specialized in mind-body psychotherapy in an alternative medicine practice spanning thirty years; he has also worked in virtually all aspects of conventional medicine.

He is currently an activist pioneer in social engineering, and the first physician to address the core emotion of shame and the effects of social oppression- to pinpoint their physical roots and invent treatment programs to resist them.

"It is time for the healer to emerge from behind the walls of clinical medicine and tackle the social milieu where illness is perpetuated. It is time for a new and revolutionary branch of medicine to take a stand against the primary source of human suffering in the world today."

Dr. King is an expert in writing technology, listening skills, and public speaking, so writing a multi-genre, memoir-driven novel, "Hide and Play Dead," came as naturally as his self-help format and literary activism in "Overcoming Oppression: Your Guide for a Journey to a New Life."

In addition to these two original, major works, the Freedom from Social Oppression book series now includes four anthologies, devoted sequentially to the topics of the creation of a unique racial, sexual, adult, and spiritual identity. Workbooks and professional guidebooks are forthcoming.

Michael currently has a private practice in psychotherapy and brain biotechnologies in the Palm Springs area of California, where he specializes in exciting new concepts for the field of medicine: shame desensitization, abuse recognition, trauma therapy, and anti-oppression training.

His treatment process is based on high-empathy, high-rapport, client-centered approaches, along with cognitive-behavioral and somatic therapies, and the development and clinical application of several emerging neuroscience technologies.