Native American postcolonial psychology
By: Eduardo Duran and Bonnie Duran.
Contributors: Duran, Bonnie, 1955-
Series: SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Psychology.; Ethnopsychology -- United States.; Indian philosophy -- United States.
Description: "This book presents a theoretical discussion of problems and issues encountered in the Native American community from a perspective that accepts Native knowledge as legitimate. Native American cosmology and metaphor are used extensively in order to deal with specific problems such as alcoholism, suicide, family, and community problems. The authors discuss what it means to present material from the perspective of a people who have legitimate ways of knowing and conceptualizing reality and show that it is imperative to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand the issues facing Native Americans today."--pub. website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index.