Native American Postcolonial Psychology / Edition 1

by Eduardo Duran, Bonnie Duran

Overview

This book shows that it is necessary to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand Native Americans today. It makes native American ways of conceptualizing the world available to readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791423547
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	03/30/1995
Series:	SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Sales rank:	716,931
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Eduardo Duran is Director of the Family and Child Guidance Clinic at the Urban Indian Health Clinic in Oakland, CA. Bonnie Duran is Director of the Healthy Nations Project at the Urban Indian Health Clinic in Oakland, CA.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part 1. Theory

1. Introduction
2. Psychological Worldviews
3. The Vehicle
4. Theoretical Concerns

Part 2. Clinical Praxis

5. The Spirit of Alcohol
6. Intervention with Families
7. The Problem of Suicide
8. Community Intervention
9. Epilogue

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book about Native Americans written the way it should be." -- Russell Thornton, Dartmouth College

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