Global Psychology from Indigenous Perspectives

Global Psychology from Indigenous Perspectives
Author: Louise Sundararajan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030351254

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This volume celebrates the visions of a more equitable global psychology as inspired by the late Professor K. S. Yang, one of the founders of the indigenous psychology movement. This unprecedented international debate among leaders in the field is essential for anyone who wishes to understand the movement from within—the thinking and the vision of those who are the driving forces behind the movement. This book should appeal to scholars and students of psychology, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, philosophy of science, and postcolonial studies.

A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth

A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth
Author: Arthur W. Blume
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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Explains Native American psychology and how its unique perspectives on mind and behavior can bring a focus to better heal individual, social, and global disorders. Psychology is a relatively new discipline, with foundations formed narrowly and near-exclusively by white, European males. But in this increasingly diverse nation and world, those foundations filled with implicit bias are too narrow to best help our people and society, says author Arthur Blume, a fellow of the American Psychological Association. According to Blume, a narrowly based perspective prevents "out-of-the-box" thinking, research, and treatment that could well power greater healing and avoidance of disorders. In this text, Blume explains the Native American perspective on psychology, detailing why that needs to be incorporated as a new model for this field. A Native American psychologist, he contrasts the original culture of psychology's creators—as it includes individualism, autonomy, independence, and hierarchal relationships—with that of Native Americans in the context of communalism, interdependence, earth-centeredness, and egalitarianism. As Blume explains, psychological happiness is redefined by the reality of our interdependence rather than materialism and individualism, and how we do things becomes as important as what we accomplish.

Colonialism and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Colonialism and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Arthur W. Blume
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2022-01-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 303092825X

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This book views responses to the Covid 19 virus through the lens of indigenous thinking which sheds light on some of the failures in dealing with the pandemic. Colonial societies maintain beliefs that hierarchies are part of the natural order, and that certain people are entitled to privileges that others are not. These hierarchies have contributed to racism as well as health, and wealth disparities that have increased vulnerabilities to the virus. Indigenous societies, on the other hand, view individuals as interdependent, and hold an optimistic view that this tragedy can yield important lessons for future improvement. This book examines the legacy of colonial societies in contributing to existing vulnerabilities, and incorporates an indigenous perspective in re-imagining the problem and its solutions.

Asian Indigenous Psychologies in the Global Context

Asian Indigenous Psychologies in the Global Context
Author: Kuang-Hui Yeh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-09-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3319962329

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​This volume introduces Asian indigenous psychologies with an emphasis on major theoretical and practical issues. The contributions demonstrate the potential for the indigenous psychologies of Asia to offer an alternative model of the internationalization of psychology—an internationalization not dominated by Western psychology. As a whole, this volume explores knowledge production outside of Western psychology; asks important questions about the discipline, profession, and practice of Asian indigenous psychology; makes critical appraises of cultural and psychological assumptions; sheds light on the dialectics of the universal and the particular in indigenous psychology; and explores the possibilities for a more equitable global psychology.

Poverty and Psychology

Poverty and Psychology
Author: Stuart C. Carr
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 146150029X

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This volume is constituted of a collection of leading contributions, each focusing on understanding the global dynamics of poverty and wealth together, from a psychological (particularly social psychological) perspective. It is one of few (if any) books on the subject that combines psychological theory and research with community development and practice.

Dialogical Multiplication

Dialogical Multiplication
Author: Danilo Silva Guimarães
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030267024

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This book presents a theoretical framework developed to support psychologists working with indigenous people and interethnic communities. Departing from the cultural shock experienced as a psychologist working with indigenous people in Brazil, Dr. Danilo Silva Guimarães identifies the limits of traditional psychological knowledge to deal with populations who don’t share the same ethos of the European societies who gave birth to psychology as a modern science and proposes a new approach to go beyond the epistemological project that aimed to construct a subject able to represent the world free from any cultural mediation. According to the author, the purpose of cultural psychology is to produce general psychological theories about the cultural mediation of the self, others and world relationships. Based on this assumption, he argues that to achieve this aim, cultural psychology needs to understand how indigenous perspectives participate in the process of knowledge construction, transforming psychological conceptions and practices. In this volume, the author presents his own contribution to open cultural psychology to indigenous perspectives by discussing the theoretical and practical implications of the notion of dialogical multiplication for the construction of work in co-authorship in the relation between psychology and indigenous peoples. With the growing migrations around the world, competences in psychological communication across cultures are more demanded each day, which makes Dialogical Multiplication – Principles for an Indigenous Psychology a critical resource for psychologists working with interethnic and intercultural communities around the world.

Toward a Global Psychology

Toward a Global Psychology
Author: Michael J. Stevens
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2007
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0805853766

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Indigenous and Cultural Psychology

Indigenous and Cultural Psychology
Author: Uichol Kim
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2006-09-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387286624

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Indigenous psychology is an emerging new field in psychology, focusing on psychological universals in social, cultural, and ecological contexts - Starting point for psychologists who wish to understand various cultures from their own ecological, historial, philosophical, and religious perspectives

Caribbean Psychology

Caribbean Psychology
Author: Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781433820649

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This book seeks to promote a more unified Caribbean psychology that goes beyond a Euro-American perspective to meet the unique needs of the culturally diverse inhabitants of this region and the diaspora.