Mary Watkins

Helene Shulman

A presentation of the theoretical foundation and participatory methodoloies of psychologies of liberation that are emerging on every continent. The book proposes a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology to aid in the creation of participatory and dialogical spaces for critical understanding and creative restoration.

Toward Psychologies of Liberation

Helen Shulman integrates experiences of synchronicity, altered states of consciousness, trance, ritual, Buddhist meditation practice and creativity into a broad perspective on cross-cultural psychology. What emerges is a comprehensive way to understand pyschological illness and healing as a perpetual work-in-progress near "the edge of chaos," where the seeds for new models of reality lie. With mental illness as the focus, she leads us on a fascinating interdisciplinary exploration, linking such areas as cultural studies, anthropology, evolutionary science and new work in mathematics and computer science - known as complexity theory - to Jungian psychology. A new paradigm for postmodern psychology emerges as the author presents a dynamic theoretical model containing rational and irrational aspects of individual and collective life.

Helene Shulman

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