Tag: liberation psychology
Can Psychotherapy Promote Liberation? Addressing Power Dynamics in Clinical Practice
Just as it risks transmitting harmful narratives about pain and distress, psychotherapy might also subvert these very harms in pursuit of genuine healing and transformation.
Opening Doors in the Borderlands: An Interview with Liberation Psychologist Mary...
MIAâs Micah Ingle interviews Mary Watkins about reorienting psychology toward liberation and social justice.
Why an Assassinated Psychologist â Ignored by U.S. Psychologists â Is...
On November 16, 1989 in El Salvador, liberation psychologist Ignacio Martin-BarĂł was murdered by a Salvadoran governmentâs âcounter-insurgency unitâ created at the U.S. Armyâs School of the Americas. This year, 25 years after his assassination, peace and justice activists around the world will honor Martin-BarĂł. Embarrassingly, the vast majority of U.S. psychologists and psychiatrists know nothing about Martin-BarĂł and liberation psychology. Why would mainstream mental health institutions keep U.S. psychologists and psychiatrists and the general public ignorant of the life and work of Martin-BarĂł?
