Values and Indigenous Psychology in the Age of the Machine and Market

Alvin Dueck is Distinguished Senior Professor of Cultural Psychologies at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, USA. He has served as a consultant to international agencies since 1984 and is actively involved in encouraging indigenous mental health awareness and services in Guatemala, Africa, and China. He is author of A Peaceable Psychology (2009).  
Louise Sundararajan received her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University, USA. She is founder and chair of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology, which has grown to have over two hundred researchers from around the globe.  She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She has served as past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association) and is recipient of the Abraham Maslow Award from Division 32 of APA. 

Chapter 1 - Darcia Narvaez & Mary S. Tarsha, What Happened to Species-Typical Human Nature?.- Chapter 2 - Kirk J. Schneider, Tech-vexed: The Awesome Price for Artifice.- Chapter 3 - Al Dueck and Michael Marossy, Neoliberal Influence on Religion and Spirituality.- Chapter 4 - Matthew Clemente and David M. Goodman, Technological Prosthesis: Defending Against Mortality.- Chapter 5 - Jeffrey Ansloos, Deanna Zantingh. Unsettling Suicide Research: Critically Interrogating Modernist and Neoliberal Theories of Justice in Suicide Research and Towards Justice-Doing Relations.- Chapter 6 - Pradeep Chakkarath, Has Everything Changed? Some Critical Thoughts on Western Theories of the Self and Self-development.- Chapter 7 - Kuang-Hui Yeh, Perspective of Confucian Self cultivation: The Solution to the Degradation of Global Morality and Value In The 21st Century.- Chapter 8 - Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi, When Knowledge Blocks the Path of Self-illumination (Going Beyond the Epistemic Based Psychology).-Chapter 9 - Ralph W. Hood, Jr., and W. Paul Williamson, In the Shadow of the Serpent: Whose Faith? Which Tradition?.- Chapter 10 - Louise Sundararajan & Maharaj K. Raina' Sarasvati's Challenge: Human Creativity at the Cross Roads of Muse and the Machine.- Chapter 11 - Arnold Groh, Indigenous Peoples and Technology: An Unbalanced Relation.- Chapter 12 - Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting & Justine Jian-Ai Thong, Do Not Pluck That Flower: The Forest and Cultural Identity for The Hunter-Gatherer Tribe (Temiars) of Malaysia.- Chapter 13 - Wenlei Huang and Jie Yang, Gongju Ren "Tool People": Alienation, Value Degradation, and Social Work in China.- Chapter 14 - Mieke Matthyssen, Negotiating Fate in Contemporary China: The Paradoxical and Changing Role of Ming in Psychological Wellbeing.- Chapter 15 - Gezim Alpion. The Faith Pilgrimage of Mother Teresa.- Chapter 16 - Andrzej Pankalla and Konrad Kosnik, National Values Back and Forth: Polish Identity in the Faceof History, Modernity And Geopolitics.- Conclusion: Dueck and Sundararajan.