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A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth: An Indigenous American Perspective

A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth: An Indigenous American Perspective

Blume, Arthur

Hardcover

Native American HistoryGeneral PsychologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1440869251
ISBN13: 9781440869259
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Apr 14 2020
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Explains Native American psychology and how its unique perspectives on mind and behavior can bring a focus to better heal individual, social, and global disorders.

Psychology is a relatively new discipline, with foundations formed narrowly and near-exclusively by white, European males. But in this increasingly diverse nation and world, those foundations filled with implicit bias are too narrow to best help our people and society, says author Arthur Blume, a fellow of the American Psychological Association. According to Blume, a narrowly based perspective prevents out-of-the-box thinking, research, and treatment that could well power greater healing and avoidance of disorders.

In this text, Blume explains the Native American perspective on psychology, detailing why that needs to be incorporated as a new model for this field. A Native American psychologist, he contrasts the original culture of psychology's creators--as it includes individualism, autonomy, independence, and hierarchal relationships--with that of Native Americans in the context of communalism, interdependence, earth-centeredness, and egalitarianism. As Blume explains, psychological happiness is redefined by the reality of our interdependence rather than materialism and individualism, and how we do things becomes as important as what we accomplish.

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