In Shaw’s novella The Adventures of a Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932), the Myop is a caricature of a reductionist, materialist account of reality. Berry uses the figure of the Myop to critique the Western “professional helping” industries for their overreliance on scientific approaches to care, and specifically on their reluctance to incorporate spirituality into mental health care. Berry argues that an Indigenous African-centered understanding of care requires the incorporation of spirituality into healing, and that failure to address the spiritual dimension of healing is a key reason for Western psychotherapy’s poor track record in addressing the needs of non-European populations. Berry explores several African-centered models of care that seek to incorporate spirituality, and provides a case study on how the Nation of Islam, by integrating spirituality and healing into community life, is able to provide a more holistic approach to care as compared to Western bureaucratic systems.