Description
This book aims to serve as a foundational text in the emerging field of African psychology, which centers the knowledges and experience of continental African realities and postcolonial concerns in psychology. Drawing from the author's key essays as a leading thinker in the field, African Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition describes this discipline's meaning and scope, as well as its epistemological and theoretical perspectives.Part I presents the theoretical context for the book, proposing the Madiban tradition as a framework of inclusion for the study of psychology in African universities. Part 2 focuses on the epistemological, methodological, and theoretical perspectives in African psychology. Part 3 of the book introduces the reader to the field of African therapeutics, and Part 4 highlights the healing rituals and practices provided to the traumatised in contemporary Africa. The ultimate objective of the book is to give postcolonial Africans a fresh vision of themselves and their psychology and culture.
Table of Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorPART I BACKGROUND AND DEFINITION: A POSTCOLONIAL THEORY OF AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY1. Introduction: The Danger of a Single Story and the Problem of Speaking for Others2. What Is African Psychology the Psychology of?: A Postcolonial Theory3. African Psychology and Archaeology: Looking Through the Mirror of the African Past and WorldviewPART II THEORIES, EPISTEMOLOGIES, METHODOLOGIES4. Epistemological and Cultural Perspectives in African Psychology5. Endogenous Principles and Concepts in African Psychology6. An Africentric Theory of Human Motivation7. A Synoptic and Multidimensional Theory of the Modern African Self8. Dreaming in Africa: An Africentric Theory9. Writing the Body: An Africentric Theory of the Gates of Stress10. A Rainbow Theory of Marriage Development: An Africentric Perspective11. Research Methodology in African Psychology: Epistemology, Theory, and TechniquesPART III AFRICAN THERAPEUTICS: PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES12. Moving Beyond the BPS: An Africentric Approach to Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment13. A Collaborative and Narrative Approach to Child and Family Therapy in Africa14. Building on the Indigenous: Theory and Practice of Marriage Therapy in Contemporary AfricaPART IV PSYCHOLOGY, CULTURE, AND COMMUNITY PRACTICE IN AFRICA15. Psychological Processes and Rituals of Hope- Healing Communities in Contemporary Africa16. Expectations and Dilemmas of African Immigrants in Europe and North America: Rewriting the Narrative17. The Therapeutic Use of Songs in Apartheid South Africa: An African Example of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed18. From Mind to Relationship: A Five- Stage Theory of Community Participation in Grief Work in Africa19. Rituals of Cleansing and Repossession: An Africentric Approach to Treatment of Moral InjuryIndex
