Liberation psychology: a constructive critical praxis

Liberation psychology: A constructive critical praxis Psicologia da libertação: uma práxis crítica construtiva

Can a critical psychology be more than an inward looking critique of the discipline itself? Liberation psychology emerged in Latin America in the 1980s. It is a critical psychology with an action focus, taking sides with the oppressed populations of the continent. The originator of the approach, Ignacio Martín-Baró practiced psychology in the context of the El Salvador an civil war, himself bec...

Liberation as Revolutionary Praxis: Rethinking Buddhist Materialism

Although it is only in recent decades that scholars have begun to reconsider and problematize Buddhist conceptions of “freedom” and “agency,” the thought traditions of Asian Buddhism have for many centuries struggled with questions related to the issue of “liberation”—along with its fundamental ontological, epistemological and ethical implications. With the development of Marxist thought in the...

Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology

This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation. Although conceived as a universal theory and practice of liberation, scholars across diverse sites have suggested that feminism—perhaps especially as it manifests in psychological scienc...

Praxis Critical Systems

With conventional methods of performing verification and validation heavily reliant on testing performed late in the software production process the late detection of errors adds substantially to project costs and delays in delivery, and introduces significant risks. This paper presents a method of software development aimed at "correctness by construction", which greatly attenuates these probl...

Liberating Psychotherapy: Liberation Psychology and Psychotherapy with LGBT Clients