Psychology of the Americas
Mestizo Perspectives on Personality and Mental Health
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1983
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Author: Manuel Ramirez
- Editor: Arnold P. Goldstein
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 2 0 9 0 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 3 3 2 - 2
Psychology of the Americas: Mestizo Perspectives on Personality and Mental Health presents the framework for a personality psychology and psychiatry of the Americas. This framework… Read more
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Request a sales quotePsychology of the Americas: Mestizo Perspectives on Personality and Mental Health presents the framework for a personality psychology and psychiatry of the Americas. This framework is based on the mestizo world view, a perspective that emerged from sociopolitical events which are unique to the development of many of the nations of the Americas. The word "mestizo" refers to the synthesis of native American and European people, cultures, and life styles. This book is divided into nine chapters and starts with a discussion of the concepts and principles of developmental, personality, community, and clinical psychology/psychiatry, which are reflected in the cultures of the indigenous peoples of North and South America, as well as the Caribbean. Considerable chapters offer some models that are based on the paradigms of diversity and synthesis, specifically a values/belief systems-cognitive styles framework based on research that has explored the relationship between traditionalism-modernism and cognitive styles. The specific models focus on individual development of pluralistic identities, the mental health of families coping with acculturation stress, person-environment fit of migrating individuals who are mismatched with institutions and agencies of the community, and on intergroup and international relations in situations of conflict. The remaining chapters deal with the tenets and assumptions of a psychology and psychiatry, including theories and approaches which differ in many respects from the European world view-based personality psychology and psychiatry of the past. This book is of value to psychologists, psychiatrists, researchers, and students.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter
1. A Psychology of the Americas
Two Historical Traditions, Two World Views, and Two Perspectives in Personality Psychology and Mental Health
Contrasting European and Mestizo World Views in Psychology and Psychiatry
2. The Cultural and Philosophical Foundations of Mestizo Psychology and Psychiatry
Psychology Reflected in the Cultures of the Indigenous People of North America
Psychology Reflected in the Cultures of the Indigenous People of Central and South America and the Caribbean
The Mestizoization of Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
Philosophical Roots of Mestizo Psychology and Psychiatry
3. Social Science Foundations of a Mestizo Theory of Personality and Psychiatry
Early Anthropological Culture and Personality Research
Psychoanalytically Oriented Works
Recent Psychological Research in Latin America
Research and Development with Hispanics in the United States: The Call for a Mestizo Psychology
4. A Mestizo Theory of Personality Psychology and Psychiatry
General Description of the Theory
Principal Assumptions of the Theory
Stages of Identity Development in Traditional Mestizo Cultures
Problems of Identity Development
Opportunities for Multicultural Development
5. Research Methods and the Mestizo World View
Methodologies and Instruments Reflecting the European World View
European vs. Mestizo World Views and the Emic-Etic Controversy in Cross-Cultural Psychology
Research Methodologies and Instruments Inspired by the Mestizo World View
Assessing the Degree to Which Methodology of Research and Intervention Projects Is Consonant with the Mestizo World View
6. Coping with Diversity in the Americas: The Need to Integrate Mestizo and European Research Approaches and Methodologies
Natural Sciences vs. Phenomenological Approaches to Psychological Research
Diversity and the Americas
Understanding the Psychodynamics of Bicultural/Multicultural People
Life Histories
Leadership in Mixed Ethnic Groups
7. The Mestizo World View and Mental Health in the Americas
Holistic Views of Health and Maladjustment
Good Relations with the Physical and Social Environments
Religion, Spiritualism, and Health: Good Relations with the Supernatural
Curanderos(as), Espiritistas, and Medicine Men: Mediating between the Person and the Supernatural
Models for Understanding and Promoting Mental Health in the Americas
A Neighborhood-Based, Culture-Responsive Model for Bicultural/Multicultural Stress
8. Coping with Change and Improving Intergroup and International Relations in the Americas: Applications of Mestizo Psychology
Change and Adjustment in the Americas
Community Psychology, Intervention, and Primary Prevention in Problems of Adjustment Related to Culture Change
A Values/Belief Systems-Cognitive Styles Model
Intranational and International Conflict in the Americas: Politics and Economics
A Training Program in Interethnic and International Relations
9. Conclusion
The Psychology of the Americas and Megatrends
The Psychology of the Americas and Diversity
The Psychology of the Americas and the Future of the World
Appendix
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Author
Pergamon General Psychology Series Titles
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1983
- No. of pages (eBook): 200
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483120904
- eBook ISBN: 9781483153322
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