Toward Psychologies of Liberation

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.

Author: M. Watkins, H. Shulman
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/15/2008
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780230537682

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2009

About the Author
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.