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Palgrave Toward Psychologies of Liberation 2010 Edition by M. Watkins, H. Shulman
Psychologies of liberation are emerging on every continent in response to the collective traumas inflicted by colonialism and globalization. The authors present the theoretical foundation and participatory methodologies that unite these radical interdisciplinary approaches to creating individual and community well-being. They move from a description of the psychological and community wounds that are common to unjust and violent contexts to engaging examples of innovative community projects from around the world that seek to heal these wounds. The creation of public homeplaces, and the work of liberation arts, critical participatory action research, public dialogue, and reconciliation are highlighted as embodying the values and hopes of liberation psychology. Drawing on psychoanalysis, trauma studies, liberation arts, participatory research, and contemporary cultural work, this book nourishes our understanding of and imagination about the kinds of healing that are necessary to the creation of more just and peaceful communities. In dialogue with cultural workers, writers, and visionaries from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States, and the Pacific Islands, Toward Psychologies of Liberation quickens a dialogical convergence of liberatory psychological theories and practices that will seed individual and community transformation. Table of contents : - Preface by Tod Sloan; Introduction; Part I Compass Points; 1. Beyond Universals: Local Regeneration; 2. Beyond Ideology: Dialogue; Part II Psychic Wounds of Colonialism and Globalization; 4. Symptoms and Psychologies in Cultural Context; 5. From Bystanding toward Engaged Witness; 6. Pathologies of Perpetration; 7. Mourning and Witness after Collective Trauma ; Part III Springs for Creative Restoration; 8. Rupture and Hospitality; 9. Non-Subjects and Nomadic Consciousness; 10. Dialogue; Part IV Participatory Practices of Liberation Psychologies; 11. Communities of Resistance: Public Homeplaces and Supportive; 12. Liberation Arts: Amnesia, Counter-Memory, Counter-Memorial; 13. Critical Participatory Action Research; 14. Placing Dialogical Ethics at the Center of Psychological; 15. Dreams of Reconciliation and Restoration; Afterword-Tikkun Olam: The Restoration and Repair of the World.