"Toward Psychologies Of Liberation" by Mary Watkins, Helene Shulman

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.

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.

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.

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I Compass Points
1. Beyond Universals: Local Regeneration
2. Beyond Ideology: Dialogue
3. Beyond Development: Liberation
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 Sites of Reconciliation
12. Liberation Arts: Amnesia, Counter-Memory, Counter-Memorial
13. Critical Participatory Action Research
14. Placing Dialogical Ethics at the Center of Psychological Research
15. Dreams of Reconciliation and Restoration
Acknowledgments
References
Author Index
Subject Index