Critical Community and Liberation Psychology
Facilitator: Bruno de Oliveira
6-week module on Saturday mornings, 11am-1.30pm, 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th March and 4th and 18th April
Council’s learning resource centre at the Cowley Club Library (London Rd) & City Clean depot, Upper Hollingdean Road, Brighton BN1 7GA. (entrance gates opposite the Hollingbury Pub)
(Please note, the first 4 dates for this course are held at the Cowley Club library, the last two in April will be at the Learning Resource Centre
For the last hundred years, psychology in the West has most often presented itself as a universal and ahistorical science, largely presenting local and Eurocentric perspectives as facts. Today it is possible to see how psychological theories of a bounded individualistic and competitive subjectivity with fixed developmental stages leading to separation constituted an expression of dominant cultural interests.
We are concerned that the academic discipline of psychology has historically been complicit, whether intentionally or not, in the establishment of colonial, neo-colonial, and globalized hierarchies of oppression. We are not seeking homogeneity of thought, but the opening of a space for criticality, for the rise of new ideas and practices in psychology, for an interdisciplinary approach to the psychological, and for unfolding liberatory work within our communities.