Psychology In Africa Psychology Revivals

Author : Mallory Wober
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317701293

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Psychology in Africa (Psychology Revivals) by Mallory Wober Pdf

It is now well over a hundred and fifty years since the first celebrated geographical explorations of Africa took place. However, it was many years before there began quests of a different kind – the investigation of behaviour, personality, attitude and ability among Africa’s people. Originally published in 1975, this book is an account of that work: the first explorations in Africa of psychology. In an exhaustive and well-documented report the author, a psychologist who had himself done research in Nigeria, Uganda and who had lectured at Makerere University, drew together the main threads of the research carried out so far, putting the issues in an African perspective but anchoring them firmly within the framework of modern psychological thinking and technique of the time. Are there any common personality and intellectual characteristics among Africans? How does weaning affect African child development? How have Africans’ feelings developed about city life and industrial work? The questions the author considers range from the broad-based to the specific. The challenges which lay ahead for African investigators then moving into the mainstream of the work are also discussed. But perhaps above all the book made a convincing case for psychology becoming a relevant and finely honed discipline in Black Africa, characterised by practical application to Black African society. Each chapter covers a defined area of modern psychology of the time and presents a comprehensive survey in a language no more technical that the subject warrants. At the time is was felt this book would be invaluable to students of Africa secondary education whose course included a psychology component and to African students beginning a degree course in psychology. It would also have provided an informative supplement to courses in medicine, development studies, political science, sociology and anthropology.

Author : J. Mallory Wober
Publisher : London : International African Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0853020477

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Psychology in Africa by J. Mallory Wober Pdf

Author : J. Mallory Wober,International African Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0091418615

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Psychology in Africa by J. Mallory Wober,International African Institute Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1414753956

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Psychology in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Geoffrey Parrinder,Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 0227170539

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West African Psychology by Edward Geoffrey Parrinder,Geoffrey Parrinder Pdf

This comparative study of African religion and psychology deals with the idea of the soul and the spiritual powers of man and animals in West African belief. Based on personal research supported by anthropological study, it covers most of the coast and hinterland from the Ivory Coast to Eastern Nigeria. It records beliefs in a future life; reincarnation; metamorphosis; ghosts; hysterical possession; soul-eating by witches; and the interpretation of dreams.

Author : Daudi Ajani ya Azibo
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0865432937

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African Psychology in Historical Perspective and Related Commentary by Daudi Ajani ya Azibo Pdf

Professionals, whether engaged primarily in theory, research, or practice, will welcome the freshness and depth of vision this anthology affords into the history and teaching of psychology, into the methodology of culture-specific research, into the peculiar predicament of the African American, into the effects of oppression and the very nature of human personality. Students of psychology, at every level, will find in this book valuable and proactive alternatives to the prevailing Eurocentric analyses.

Author : Peter Marris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317627036

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Loss and Change (Psychology Revivals) by Peter Marris Pdf

First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field since its first publication. The late Peter Marris shows how understanding grief can help us to understand processes of change, both personal and social, and to handle them with more compassion for ourselves and others. He sees grieving as the working out of a psychological reintegration, whose principles are essentially similar whether the ‘structures of meaning’ of our life fall apart from the loss of a personal relationship, of a predictable social context or of an interpretable world. Marris draws on his wide-ranging research to develop his argument. A study of widows, a description of the devastating effects of urban renewal projects on people whose familiar neighbourhoods are destroyed, an analysis of the activities of tribal associations in Nigeria, and reflections on the analogies between scientific and political revolutions are a few of the studies Marris weaves together in tracing the meaning of change and loss in human life.

Author : Augustine Nwoye
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190932497

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African Psychology by Augustine Nwoye Pdf

This book aims to serve as a foundational text in the emerging field of African psychology, which centers the knowledges and experience of continental African realities and postcolonial concerns in psychology. Drawing from the author's key essays as a leading thinker in the field, African Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition describes this discipline's meaning and scope, as well as its epistemological and theoretical perspectives. Part I presents the theoretical context for the book, proposing the Madiban tradition as a framework of inclusion for the study of psychology in African universities. Part 2 focuses on the epistemological, methodological, and theoretical perspectives in African psychology. Part 3 of the book introduces the reader to the field of African therapeutics, and Part 4 highlights the healing rituals and practices provided to the traumatised in contemporary Africa. The ultimate objective of the book is to give postcolonial Africans a fresh vision of themselves and their psychology and culture.

Author : Suman Fernando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317557692

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Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals) by Suman Fernando Pdf

As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an ethnocentric body of knowledge, the vehicle of implicit and overt racism. Originally published in 1988 this author, however, saw no reason why the contemporary psychiatrist should not challenge this ethnocentrism. He provides a critical account of the development of psychiatry in relation to its cultural context and then examined contemporary practice of the time in the light of this development. Throughout, the book is informed by an awareness of issues of race and culture and of their difficult interactions, the author emphasising both the frequency of racist attitudes and the very real cultural distinctions in our society, distinctions that can be used to mask what are actually racist sentiments. What emerges is not just a plea for an anti-racist, culture sensitive psychiatry, but a blueprint for how this can be brought about. He argued that the shift towards community work and social psychiatry could reorientate the profession by confronting it with its social setting and responsibilities. This book represented a significant contribution to this literature for all mental health professionals and social scientists with an interest in this field at the time; the author has gone on to write many more.

Author : Philip E. Vernon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134749799

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Intelligence and Cultural Environment (Psychology Revivals) by Philip E. Vernon Pdf

Originally published in 1969, Intelligence and Cultural Environment looks at the concept of intelligence and the factors influencing the mental development of children, including health and nutrition, as well as child-rearing practices. It goes on to discuss the application of intelligence tests in non-Western countries and includes both British and cross-cultural studies to illustrate this. Inevitably a product of the time in which it was written, this book nonetheless makes a valuable contribution to intelligence theory as we know it today.

Author : N. C. Manganyi
Publisher : Bowker-Saur
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015025250765

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Treachery and Innocence by N. C. Manganyi Pdf

Author : Kopano Ratele
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781776143924

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The World Looks Like This From Here by Kopano Ratele Pdf

Builds a compelling case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa What does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African—with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a textbook on African-centred psychology look like? How do researchers and practitioners engage in African social psychology, African-centred child development, African neuropsychology, or any area of psychology that situates African realities at the centre? Questions such as these are what Kopano Ratele grapples with in this lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise on practising African psychology in a decolonised world view. Employing a style common in philosophy but rarely used in psychology, the book offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. While setting out a framework for researching, teaching and practicing African psychology, the book in part coaxes, in part commands and in part urges students of psychology, lecturers, researchers and therapists to reconsider and reach beyond their received notions of African psychology.

Author : Edward Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163716481

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West African psychology by Edward Geoffrey Parrinder Pdf

Author : Helen Dent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317593300

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Clinical Psychology (Psychology Revivals) by Helen Dent Pdf

Originally published in 1987, this book presents papers from the First Conference of European Clinical Psychologists, held at the University of Kent Canterbury in July of that year. It shows some of the most exciting and recent developments in research and innovations in professional practice from many European countries with an overall theme of the WHO strategy of ‘Health for all by the year 2000.’ The whole range of clinical psychology is covered, including: cognitive therapy, clinical psychology and WHO strategy, the mental health of ethnic minority groups, health psychology, care in the community, and many other topics. The book is likely to be of interest for anyone concerned with the recent history and policies in clinical psychology.

Author : Len T. Holdstock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134660414

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Re-examining Psychology by Len T. Holdstock Pdf

First published in 2004. Re-examining Psychology takes a critical look at some of the principles underlying the discipline and offers an insight into alternative psychological perspectives deriving from sub-Saharan Africa.