{"product_id":"african-psychology-9780190932497","title":"African Psychology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book aims to serve as a foundational text in the emerging field of African psychology, which centers the knowledge and experience of continental African realities and postcolonial concerns in psychology. Drawing from the author''s key essays as a leading thinker in the field, African Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition describes this discipline''s meaning and scope, as well as its epistemological and theoretical perspectives.   Part I presents the theoretical context for the book, proposing the Madiban tradition as a framework of inclusion for the study of psychology in African universities. Part 2 focuses on the epistemological, methodological, and theoretical perspectives in African psychology. Part 3 of the book introduces the reader to the field of African therapeutics, and Part 4 highlights the healing rituals and practices provided to the traumatised in contemporary Africa. The ultimate objective of the book is to give postcolonial Africans a fresh vision of themselves \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume certainly provides valuable insight into the complexity of reconstructing psychology as a postcolonial enterprise. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eAfrican Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition is an important contribution that can inform current practice and education, enhance understanding, and spur further research and theoretical development. It is the product of insightful, earnest, and reasoned reflection on the ethical, political, cultural, and societal realities and complexities of developing psychological theory and practice in African contexts. It is likely to generate discussion and debate, not only among psychologists who work, teach, and study in Africa, but also among all of us who are committed to the ongoing, multifaceted project of thinking through the decolonization and reconstruction of local and global psychologies. * Suzanne R. Kirschner, Theory \u0026amp; Psychology *\u003cbr\u003eAfrican Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition is a ground-breaking foundational text for the new field of African psychology by one of the field's principal spokespersons. Augustine Nwoye has mapped the contours of this emerging field, assigning it a definition, and unravelling its scope and contents. * Eunice Njeri Mvungu, Journal of Psychology in Africa *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Acknowledgments  About the Author   PART I BACKGROUND AND DEFINITION: A POSTCOLONIAL THEORY OF AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY   1. Introduction: The Danger of a Single Story and the Problem of Speaking for Others   2. What Is African Psychology the Psychology of?: A Postcolonial Theory   3. African Psychology and Archaeology: Looking Through the Mirror of the African Past and Worldview   PART II THEORIES, EPISTEMOLOGIES, METHODOLOGIES   4. Epistemological and Cultural Perspectives in African Psychology   5. Endogenous Principles and Concepts in African Psychology   6. An Africentric Theory of Human Motivation   7. A Synoptic and Multidimensional Theory of the Modern African Self   8. Dreaming in Africa: An Africentric Theory   9. Writing the Body: An Africentric Theory of the Gates of Stress   10. A Rainbow Theory of Marriage Development: An Africentric Perspective  11. Research Methodology in African Psychology: Epistemology, Theory, and Techniques   PART III AFRICAN THERAPEUTICS: PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES   12. Moving Beyond the BPS: An Africentric Approach to Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment   13. A Collaborative and Narrative Approach to Child and Family Therapy in Africa   14. Building on the Indigenous: Theory and Practice of Marriage Therapy in Contemporary Africa   PART IV PSYCHOLOGY, CULTURE, AND COMMUNITY PRACTICE IN AFRICA   15. Psychological Processes and Rituals of Hope- Healing Communities in Contemporary Africa   16. Expectations and Dilemmas of African Immigrants in Europe and North America: Rewriting the Narrative   17. The Therapeutic Use of Songs in Apartheid South Africa: An African Example of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed   18. From Mind to Relationship: A Five- Stage Theory of Community Participation in Grief Work in Africa   19. Rituals of Cleansing and Repossession: An Africentric Approach to Treatment of Moral Injury   Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524562493783,"sku":"9780190932497","price":109.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190932497.jpg?v=1731857272","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-psychology-9780190932497","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}