Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Ecopsychology MSC/PhD programme in California, USA

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The Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Ecopsychology Specialization of the M.A./Ph.D. Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California announces needs-based scholarship assistance for the 2012-2013 academic year. Students live throughout the U.S. and other countries, traveling to campus three days nine months a year. (See http://www.pacifica.edu/Depth_Psychology_Combined.aspx).

The Herman Warsh Community-Based Scholarship Fund (www.pacifica.edu/Herman_Warsh_Scholarship.aspx?terms= warsh+scholarship) helps to support students working in the areas of education, social justice, reconciliation, ecology, and diversity, and who are from groups historically under-represented in the study and practice of depth psychology. Applicants should have experience in and commitment to working in community-based settings on environmental, community, or cultural issues. Funds awarded in 2012-2013 will be renewable through the dissertation phase. The application deadline is August 1 st, and applicants must be accepted into the specialization before this date.

From Mary Watkins.

Generating consciousness

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I thought you might like to see this photo taken on the May Day march in La Paz, Bolivia.
The banner says: Urus psychology: generating consciousness.
I didn’t  get a chance to talk to them – Urus refers to one of the ethnic groups in Bolivia and possibly also to the department or city of Oruro.
The march itself was actually rather reactionary in relation to the political process in Bolivia, but the banner expresses one of the things liberation psychologists should be aiming for.

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I will write something about my encounters with liberation and community psychology in 7 American countries whe  I get home in mid May.
Mark Burton

Registration

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We´ve had some problems with registration.  I´ve finally diagnosed the problem which was to do with the Captcha thing you have to complete.

It is temporarily taken down which means there are rogue registrations at present from robotic programmes (why do they do this?).  We´ll get back to normal as soon as I have time to reinstall the captcha.   But at least it means you shouldn{t have trouble registering.

 

 

The Costa Rica meeting

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See the events page for detail about this Liberation Psychology event 22-23 March, 2012.

Ignacio Dobles makes the following observation, affirming the openness of Liberation Psychology – it isn’t just something for psychologists:

“It is important to be clear that this event isn’t exclusively for people from the [Costa Rica Liberation Psychology] collective, psychology professionals or academics in general, but that it is open to any person or group that is interested in analysing and questioning the everyday things that we go through, and likewise the aim of sharing and articulating alternatives that can change things.”

“Es importante tener claro que esta actividad no es exclusivamente para personas del colectivo, profesionales en psicología o académicos en general, sino que está abierta a toda persona o grupo que se sienta interés en analizar y cuestionar las cotidianidades por las que transitamos, así como el deseo de articular e intercambiar alternativas que permitan transformar la realidad.”

Psychologists’ Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions

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“Today, there are clear indications that psychologists continue to be involved in the detention and interrogation of detainees at Parwan/Bagram. Such activities stand in direct contravention of APA policy based on a 2008 petition resolution. Approved through a member-led referendum, this resolution prohibits psychologists from working in settings where “persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the US Constitution (where appropriate), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights” (or if they are providing treatment for military personnel).”

Read the full article on Counterpunch. by TRUDY BOND, ROY EIDELSON, BRAD OLSON AND STEPHEN SOLDZ  10/01/2012

Liber-acción has closed

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Some bad news from Latin America – the website Liber-accion established by a group of comrades in Costa Rica has closed.  The site was a good place to find Spanish language resources on Liberation Psychology.   Here is an extract from the statement by ignacio Dobles explaining the decision – with a (rough, quick) translation below.

Queriamos informarles que la revista liber-accion, que sostuvimos con gran esfuerzo un pequeño grupo durante cuatro años, ha dejado de existir como tal. Esto se debe a problemas logisticos y de soporte economico que, simplemente, no estamos en condiciones de afrontar. Mantener este esfuerzo ha requerido gran dedicacion, y muchos saben como hemos tratado de incorporar a mas personas y regiones a su elaboracion, sin embargo, muy desgraciadamente, parece que cuesta mucho articular esfuerzos que trasciendan fronteras.

We would like to tell you that the journal liber-accion, that we, as a small group, have sustained with great effort over four years has ceased to exist as such.  This is a result of logistical and financial problems that we are not in a position to deal with.  To maintain this effort has required great dedication and many of you know that we have tried to involve more people and regions in its development.  However, unfortunately, it seems that it takes a lot to cross frontiers.

We owe Ignacio and the Costa Rican collective a great debt for the work they have done.  They are working to ensure that the most important material remains available.  For those of you who can read Spanish the email list is still operating, and there is a presence on facebook see .  The Costa Rican collective is at www.psicologialiberacioncr.org .

The only slightly critical reflection that (at some risk of seeming churlish) I would make personally is that while the site carried a lot of really useful stuff, there was rather too much reproduction of things from other progressive sources – this meant that a lot of the specific liberation psychology stuff could get a bit lost.  But maybe others haver a different take on this.

Anyway, the experience of liber-accion should remind us that it is only through collective effort and commitment that we we be able to sustain and develop  this initiative of libsy.org.

 

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