Native American Postcolonial Psychology / Edition 1

by Eduardo Duran, Bonnie Duran

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791423547
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	03/30/1995
Series:	SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Eduardo Duran is Director of the Family and Child Guidance Clinic at the Urban Indian Health Clinic in Oakland, CA. Bonnie Duran is Director of the Healthy Nations Project at the Urban Indian Health Clinic in Oakland, CA.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part 1. Theory

1. Introduction
2. Psychological Worldviews
3. The Vehicle
4. Theoretical Concerns

Part 2. Clinical Praxis

5. The Spirit of Alcohol
6. Intervention with Families
7. The Problem of Suicide
8. Community Intervention
9. Epilogue

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book about Native Americans written the way it should be." — Russell Thornton, Dartmouth College

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