Post Colonial Psychology

Post-colonial psychology by Eduard and Bonnie Duran is a must read for psychologists who work in cross-cultural contexts (March 1995 by State University of New York Press).
 "This is a book about Native Americans written the way it should be." -- Russell Thornton, Dartmouth College

This book presents a theoretical discussion of problems and issues encountered in the Native American community from a perspective that accepts Native knowledge as legitimate. Native American cosmology and metaphor are used extensively in order to deal with specific problems such as alcoholism, suicide, family, and community problems. The authors discuss what it means to present material from the perspective of a people who have legitimate ways of knowing and conceptualizing reality and show that it is imperative to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand the issues facing Native Americans today.

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