Toward Psychologies of Liberation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 1-8

3. Compass Points

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-11

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   2. Beyond Universals: Local Regeneration

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 13-22

   3. Beyond Ideology: Dialogue

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 23-31

   4. Beyond Development: Liberation

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 32-48

4. Psychic Wounds of Colonialism and Globalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-52

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   2. Symptoms and Psychologies in Cultural Context

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 53-63

   3. From Bystanding toward Engaged Witness

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 64-80

   4. Pathologies of Perpetration

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 81-104

   5. Mourning and Witness after Collective Trauma

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 105-130

5. Springs for Creative Restoration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-132

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   2. Rupture and Hospitality

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 133-157

   3. Non-Subjects and Nomadic Consciousness

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 158-175

   4. Dialogue

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 176-205

6. Participatory Practices of Liberation Psychologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-208

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   2. Communities of Resistance: Public Homeplaces and Supportive Sites of Reconciliation

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 209-231

   3. Liberation Arts: Amnesia, Counter-Memory, Counter-Memorial

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 232-265

   4. Critical Participatory Action Research

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 266-298

   5. Placing Dialogical Ethics at the Center of Psychological Research

      • Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

      Pages 299-312

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.

• environment
• ethics
• Generation
• globalization
• Nation
• psychology
• well-being

'This landmark book takes us on an unforgettable journey across disciplines, countries, spiritualities, and techniques to teach us twenty-first century psychologies of liberation. Authors Watkins and Shulman transform the discipline of psychology, showing us its connections to all disciplines concerned with liberating the imagination. Across international fields of difference, these authors never give up the prize: social and psychic emancipation. In doing so, they define what 'decoloniality' means for the twenty-first century.' - Chela Sandoval, Associate Professor of Liberation Philosophy, Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

'A scholarly, heartfelt, and desperately needed re-visioning of psychology.' - Dr Craig Chalquist, JFK University, USA

'One cannot help but recommend this text with utmost enthusiasm. Although not by any means a summary of its plural subject, Toward Psychologies of Liberation can be read as multi-layered digest of the major psychological, philosophical, and theological roots of this movement, as well as a review of some of the major problems tackled by theorists and practitioners within the tradition. Watkins& Shulman have crafted for us a major tour de force, broad in scope and encyclopedic in nature.' - Journal of Religion and Health

'Toward Psychologies of Liberation' provides us with a brilliant and timely compilation, in the mode of an appreciative evaluation, of these diverse strands that might be woven into the fabric of critical and progressive social science...This is a path-breaking book, and an enormous service to our scholarly community in the extensiveness and sophistication of its coverage...It is a remarkable work which deserves widespread attention.' - Barnaby B. Barratt, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society

'[A] carefully crafted, and in places truly inspiring, piece of work...It is my hope that Watkins and Shulman's book opens up thespace for multi-perspective stories, anecdotes and reflective practice of liberatory psychology. of its sucesses as well as its challenges' - Subjectivity

Mary Watkins is core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA, the author of Waking Dreams, Invisible Guests: The Development of Imaginal Dialogues, co-author of Talking with Young Children about Adoption, and co-editor of Psychology and the Promotion of Peace. She works with groups to promote peacebuilding and social justice, teaching dialogical and participatory methodologies.

Mary Watkins has taught cultural studies, critical race theory, and depth psychologies at several universities in the United States including Sonoma State, St. Lawrence University, and Pacifica Graduate Institute, She is a community activist, Jungian analyst, and workshop leader in liberation arts and psychologies. She has written several articles and book chapters on these subjects, and a monograph, Living at the Edge of Chaos: Complex Systems in Culture and Psyche.

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