Postcolonial critiques have emphasized the need for Western psychology to become more reflective of the histories, worldviews, and lived realities of historically marginalized communities across the globe (Comas-Díaz, 2000; Duran & Duran, 1995; Pickren, 2009). These works have included the contributions of liberation psychologists who advocate for the need to privilege the knowledge systems, concerns, and perspectives of local communities when proposing avenues for psychological research, intervention, and theoretical development (Watkins & Shulman, 2008). Recognizing the legacies of colonialism in North America, U.S. psychologists working with Indigenous communities have advocated for better collaboration with grassroots elders, teachers, and community groups, noting the importance of recognizing the validity of Indigenous epistemologies and the colonizing tensions that still exist between Indigenous healing systems and Western psychology (Duran, Firehammer & Gonzalez, 2008; Gone, 2007; Gone & Alcántara, 2007). Against this backdrop, the present research was carried out as an immersive, long-term ethnographic study in collaboration with Alma de Mujer (Alma), a community of Indigenous-identified women in central Texas, who are committed to creating accessible spaces for their communities to practice Indigenous lifeways and healing. Employing reciprocal ethnographic methods, the author spent two years participating in events and gatherings with the Alma community, as well as conducting in-depth interviews. Community members were consulted on an ongoing basis about the development of the research. The document centers on four objectives: First, the author traces the history of the Alma community as it emerged from social liberation and psychospiritual healing movements over the latter half of the 20th century. Second, based on the women's stories, the author presents community members' narratives about how healing is situated within the community's Indigenous knowledge systems. Specific attention is given to the holistic and reciprocal nature of healing in these stories. Third, the author includes contributions from Indigenous healers who remark on their experiences of the tensions between Indigenous healing systems and Western mental health institutions. Fourth, the author concludes with a personal critical reflection as a trainee in Western psychology and considers how dialogues between local Indigenous communities and Western psychology might be further explored. / text

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thiago Sant Anna Pereira.pdf: 2018952 bytes, checksum: 4c6d5d42ce2aae4eaa8b039b6a311f1c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-11 / The objective of this research is - through historical research to understand the process of construction of the ethical-political project of the Liberation Psychology, in the textual work of Ignacio Martín-Baró. We used the materialism historical-dialectical as the theoretical referential. From our main research we have unfolded the following specific goals: a) understanding the historical roots of Martin-Baró´s thoughts b) identification of the main concepts of this author in the construction of a Liberation Psychology. The intellectual formation of Martín-Baró gave him a theoretical versatility uncommon in the recent history of Latin American´s psychosocial theories. His ethical-political project was directly influenced by horizon (quefazer) named by himself liberation. The concept was born of Latin American Liberation Theology, however his theory gives concrete connotation to it - it is not, just metaphysics liberation, but of the conditions of socio-political and economic oppressions. Beyond the Liberation Theology, Martín-Baró was influenced by existentialism and psychoanalysis (at first), later (more clearly) by the marxist theories. His theoretical project is characterized as revisionist-critical, and its ethics are based on the defense of specific interests of the exploited classes. The main concepts / categories and elements studied were: awareness, group processes, activity-conduct-attitude-action-political behavior, socialization, identity, ideology-ideologization, public opinion, fatalism, power, violence, specifics of war, religion, university and liberation. We also expose the ontological foundations that sustain its theoretical support. For Martín-Baró, the psychology science cannot be asked to intervene in socioeconomic mechanisms that promote inequality, but is encouraged to intervene in the subjective processes of scientific legitimation that support them. This work builds on and integrates researches done by NEHPSI (Núcleo de Estudos de História da Psicologia), which maintain a group of researchers focused on the study of Psychology from Latin America / O objetivo geral desta dissertação é - por meio de pesquisa histórica - apreender o processo de construção do projeto ético-político da Psicologia da Libertação na obra textual de Ignacio Martín-Baró. Para tanto, utilizamos o materialismo histórico-dialético como referencial teórico. Do norteamento principal desdobraram-se os seguintes objetivos específicos: a) apreensão das raízes históricas do pensamento de Martín-Baró; b) identificação dos principais conceitos do autor na construção de uma Psicologia da Libertação. A formação acadêmica de Martín-Baró possibilitou versatilidade teórica incomum na história recente das teorias psicossociais latino-americanas. Seu projeto ético-político foi influenciado diretamente pelo horizonte de quefazer denominado, por ele mesmo, de Libertação. O conceito foi cunhado da Teologia (latino-americana) da Libertação; entretanto sua teoria dá conotação concreta a ele não se trata, apenas, de libertação metafísica; mas sim das condições de opressão sociopolítico e econômicas. Além da Teologia da Libertação, Martín-Baró sofre influência do existencialismo e da psicanálise (num primeiro momento de sua obra), posteriormente (de forma mais nítida) de teorias marxistas. Seu projeto teórico caracteriza-se como revisionista-crítico; e sua ética baseia-se na defesa dos interesses concretos das classes exploradas. Os principais conceitos/categorias estudados foram: conscientização, atividade-conduta-atitude-ação-comportamento, identidade-socialização, ideologia-desideologização, opinião pública, fatalismo, processos grupais, poder, violência, guerra-especificidades da guerra, religião, educação-universidade e libertação. Expomos também os fundamentos ontológicos que sustentam seu edifício teórico. Para Martín-Baró a Psicologia pode não ser convidada a intervir nos mecanismos socioeconômicos que promovem desigualdade social, porém é incitada a intervir nos processos subjetivos de legitimação científica que os sustentam. Este trabalho dá continuidade e integra pesquisas feitas pelo NEHPSI (Núcleo de História da Psicologia da PUC-SP); que mantêm um grupo de pesquisadores voltados para o estudo sobre Psicologia desde América Latina

Thesis advisor: M. Brinton Lykes / Every day Muslim women in the United States wake up to a harsh political world that attacks their identities, communities, and freedom. In this context, Muslim women endure immense psychological tolls on their sense of identity, safety, and relationships. For many of them, walking out the door and claiming their Muslim identity is an act of political resistance. Despite the disempowerment they may experience, many engage in social actions to resist these oppressive forces. Yet, Muslim women activists have received strikingly little attention in the psychological literature. To date, no research has explored the psychosocial experiences of Muslim women who engage in activism, nor the meanings they make of these engagements or their trajectories of resistance. Using a participatory research approach informed by art-based inquiry techniques, this inductive qualitative study explored 10 Muslim women activists’ trajectories into and experiences of engaging in social action. A constructivist theoretical model of Muslim women activists' processes of resistance and community liberation was developed through qualitative inductive analyses of in-depth interviews and participants’ illustrations. Eight “clusters” have been configured to map a model that represents both processes and outcomes of how these 10 women engaged, experienced, and made meaning of their activism. They include: (1) living in a post 9/11 sociopolitical context; (2) navigating the Muslim community context; (3) internal experiences of being a Muslim woman; (4) guiding ideals toward activism journey; (5) development of political analyses; (6) resistance actions toward social change; (7) burdens and benefits of engagement in resistance; and (8) supportive forces in the process of resistance.  Although only representative of 10 participants, the model is sufficiently theorized to suggest that life in a multiply traumatizing context shapes Muslim women activists’ experiences, precluding and contributing to their persistence and resistance throughout and during their engagement in social change work. Political analyses and ideals are vital in their descriptions of their trajectories of becoming activists. Benefits and burdens that are inevitable in social change work include both the thrill and fun of engaging in activism as well as the costs to relationships and conflicts inherent in such work. Finally, encouragement by other Muslims and allies is discussed as a valuable source of support to Muslim women activists. Limitations are discussed and implications are proposed to inform possibilities for future healing centered research and action. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:30:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA PAULA GOMES MOREIRA.pdf: 2339003 bytes, checksum: b096bc6d05c964a90607413ed155a7e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-24 / Universidade Estadual Paulista J?lio de Mesquita Filho / This research discusses the meaning of critical activities in the field of School Psychology from the concept of limit-situation outlined by Ignacio Mart?n-Bar? in the framework of Social Liberation Psychology. We start from the understanding that the absence of the school psychologist in the public school configures a gap between the critical perspective announced for the area and its characterization in practice. Assuming praxis as an ethical-political position we take our insertion into a Municipal Public Elementary School as a condition for considering this issue. Aiming to characterize or define which means the school psychologist s critical intervention we have proposed a counterpoint between the limit-situation category constructed by Ignacio Mart?n-Bar? within Social Liberation Psychology and some concepts developed by L. S. Vigotski in the framework of Cultural Historical Psychology. From this both ideas, considering the school as an environment that produces development we understand that limit-situations build a synthesis between events that indicate injury or difficulty to children s development and their possibilities, overcoming or reconfiguration. We talk about critical moments in the lives of school children which, dialectically, keeps the possibility of change in relationship with others. We defend the thesis that the psychologist s actions, daily at school, when directed by the identification and characterization of limit-situations can promote children s development in this context and thus reveal the meaning of what we call critical preventive intervention. The evidence supporting this thesis are organized in the methodological model we present in the basis of Historical Dialectical Materialism: scenes of everyday school s life. For this we prepared summaries of our actions in school and took them as a source for the design of real life stories acts. These act s construction was guided by the limit-situation as a unit of analysis. From the acts we have taken scenes and inside the scenes we analyzed the dynamic of limit-situations. At the end, we concluded that being daily in the school is a necessity for the psychology who wants to act critically. / Este trabalho discute o sentido da atua??o cr?tica no campo da Psicologia Escolar a partir do conceito de situa??o-limite delineado por Ignacio Mart?n-Bar? no ?mbito da Psicologia Social da Liberta??o. Partimos da compreens?o de que a aus?ncia do psic?logo escolar na escola p?blica instaura uma lacuna entre a perspectiva cr?tica anunciada pela ?rea e a sua caracteriza??o na pr?tica. Assumindo a pr?xis como uma posi??o ?tico-pol?tica, tomamos nossa inser??o em uma Escola P?blica Municipal de Ensino Fundamental como condi??o para a considera??o desta quest?o. Com o objetivo de caracterizar o que significa a atua??o cr?tica do psic?logo escolar, propusemos uma s?ntese entre a categoria situa??o-limite constru?da por Ignacio Mart?n-Bar? e alguns conceitos elaborados por L. S. Vigotski no aporte da Psicologia Hist?rico-Cultural. A partir desta s?ntese, considerando a escola como espa?o de promo??o de desenvolvimento, compreendemos que as situa??es-limite s?o aquelas que estruturalmente significam preju?zo, dificuldade ou impedimento para o desenvolvimento das crian?as, mas que, incorporadas ?s situa??es sociais de desenvolvimento, delimitam suas possibilidades de supera??o ou reconfigura??o. Falamos de momentos cr?ticos na vida escolar das crian?as que, dialeticamente, guardam a possibilidade de modifica??o na rela??o com os outros. Defendemos a tese de que as a??es do psic?logo, inseridas no cotidiano da escola, quando orientadas pela identifica??o e caracteriza??o das situa??es-limite, passam a constituir uma atividade favorecedora do desenvolvimento das crian?as neste contexto e, assim, delimitam o sentido do que chamamos de atua??o preventiva cr?tica. As evid?ncias que sustentam esta tese est?o organizadas no modelo metodol?gico que constru?mos ? base do Materialismo Hist?rico-Dial?tico: as cenas do cotidiano escolar. Para isso, elaboramos di?rios de campo como s?nteses de nossas a??es na escola e os tomamos como fonte para o delineamento de atos ou hist?rias da vida real dos atores do cen?rio escolar. Este delineamento foi iluminado pelo conceito de situa??o-limite como dimens?o de significa??o para a an?lise dos sentidos contidos nos di?rios de campo. Destes atos extra?mos cenas e dedicamo-nos ? an?lise das situa??es-limite objetivadas como dimens?es singulares, confrontadas com as particularidades que as constitu?ram. Esta an?lise concluiu que estar no cotidiano da escola ? condi??o para que o psic?logo atue criticamente no processo de desenvolvimento das crian?as no cen?rio escolar.