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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review'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 the space for multi-perspective stories, anecdotes and reflective practice of liberatory psychology. of its sucesses as well as its challenges' - Subjectivity
Table of ContentsPreface 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.
