So, liberation psychology evolved with a challenge to opposites and to power, to hostile inequality and dominance as the assumed nature of the relationship between opposites. All of a sudden everything looks different. By changing the basic assumptions we change the basic relationships. We have a search for peace replacing the strategies of war. With this orientation, we are able to participate in our paradoxical inner communication network with integrity and respect as we try to discover and understand the complexity of what is being communicated.
Liberation psychology defines liberation as the freedom to choose intimacy.
It assumes that our communication network within is designed to keep us at one with our paradoxical nature, and that we need to be taught how to participate in this network in a way that maintains its oneness. Self-expression with accountability is the vehicle that allows us to do that because it preserves the integrity of the system. Visualizing the self's communication network as a spiral comes out of the belief that all the self's various paradoxical forces are equally legitimate and that they are meant to work as a team. The relationship between these forces within the self is one of forming, informing and being informed by each other, not controlling or being controlled. Thoughts are formed and informed by feelings and feelings are formed and informed by thoughts.