Decolonial Psychology

Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in Washington, DC, the executive director of the Transcultural Mental Health Institute, and a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association (APA) Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Practice of Psychology, and a past president of APA Division 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice). Dr. Comas-Díaz is the coeditor of Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice; Latina Psychologists: Thriving in the Cultural Borderlands; Womanist and Mujerista Psychologies: Voices of Fire, Acts of Courage; Multicultural Care: A Clinician's Guide to Cultural Competence; and Psychological Health of Women of Color. Hector Y. Adames, PsyD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Wright State University in Ohio and completed his doctoral internship at the Boston University School of Medicine's Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology. He is a licensed psychologist, professor at The Chicago School, College of Professional Psychology, and cofounder and codirector of the IC-RACE Lab (Immigration Critical Race and Cultural Equity Lab). He has earned several awards, including the 2018 Distinguished Emerging Professional Research Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race, a division of APA. Dr. Adames has coauthored several books including Speaking the Unspoken: Breaking the Silence, Myths, and Taboos That Hurt Therapists and Patients; Succeeding as a Therapist: How to Create a Thriving Practice in a Changing World; Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide; and Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and Within-Group Differences. Follow Dr. Adames on Twitter, Instagram, and Spoutible or visit the IC-RACE Lab (icrace.org). Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, PhD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the APA-accredited program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is a professor at The Chicago School, College of Professional Psychology, where she serves as the faculty coordinator for the concentration in Latinx mental health in the counseling psychology department. She is the codirector of the IC-RACE Lab (Immigration, Critical Race, and Cultural Equity Lab). She has earned several awards, including the 2018 APA Distinguished Citizen Psychologist Award. Dr. Chavez-Dueñas has coauthored several books including Speaking the Unspoken: Breaking the Silence, Myths, and Taboos That Hurt Therapists and Patients; Succeeding as a Therapist: How to Create a Thriving Practice in a Changing World; Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide; and Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and Within-Group Differences. Follow Dr. Chavez-Dueñas on Twitter, Instagram, and Spoutible or visit the IC-RACE Lab (icrace.org).

Contributors 

Series Foreword
Frederick T. L. Leong

Foreword
Gayle Skawen:nio Morse and Marie C. Weil

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Decoloniality as a Transformative Force in Psychology: An Orientation to This Book
Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, and Lillian Comas-Díaz

Part I. History and Knowledge

Chapter 1. Colonial Mentality: Manifestations, Operations, and Psychological Implications
Hannah L. Rebadulla, Jonathan U. Guerrero, and E. J. R. David

Chapter 2. Naming and Unlearning Psychological Coloniality
Cristalís Capielo Rosario, Eduardo Lugo-Hernández, and Loíza A. DeJesús Sullivan

Chapter 3. Engaging With Decoloniality, Decolonization, and Histories of Psychology Otherwise
Sunil Bhatia, Wahbie Long, Wade Pickren, and Alexandra Rutherford

Part II. Science, Methods, and Epistemic Justice 

Chapter 4. Decolonizing and Building Liberatory Psychological Sciences
Helen A. Neville, B. Andi Lee, and Amir H. Maghsoodi

Chapter 5. Beyond Decolonization: Anticolonial Methodologies for Indigenous Futurity in Psychological Research 
Jillian Fish and Joseph P. Gone

Chapter 6. Disciplinary Disruptions: Strategies Toward a Decolonial Community Psychology Praxis
Jesica Siham Fernández

Chapter 7. Decolonizing in a Transnational Feminist Commons Perched Precariously Between the Academy and Movements for Justice
Adreanne Ormond, Puleng Segalo, María Elena Torre, and Michelle Fine

Part III. Education, Professional Training, and Mentoring
 
Chapter 8. Decolonizing the High School and Undergraduate Curriculum
Edil Torres Rivera and Ivelisse Torres Fernandez

Chapter 9. Unlearning Colonial Practices and (Re)envisioning Graduate Education in Psychology 
Carrie L. Castañeda-Sound, Miguel Gallardo, and Susana O. Salgado

Chapter 10. The Decolonial Mentoring Framework: Advancing an Anticolonial Future in Psychology and Beyond
Mackenzie T. Goertz, Hector Y. Adames, Chelsea Parker, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Radia DeLuna​, and Jessica G. Perez-Chavez

Chapter 11. Wise Face, Firm Heart: Ethics and Decolonial Psychology
Melinda A. García

Part IV. Psychotherapies  

Chapter 12. Decolonial Psychotherapy: Joining the Circle, Healing the Wound
Lillian Comas-Díaz and Frederick M. Jacobsen

Chapter 13. Decolonizing Psychoanalysis: Anti-Blackness, Coloniality, and a New Premise for Psychoanalytic Treatment
Daniel Jose Gaztambide, Fabo Feliciano-Graniela, Jose Luiggi-Hernandez, and Edlyane Veronica Medina Escobar 

Chapter 14. Decolonizing Feminist Therapy
Thema Bryant, Carolyn Zerbe Enns, and Yuying Tsong

Part V. Queer Futures, Self-Care, and Community Care 

Chapter 15. Moving Psychology Toward Anticolonial Queer Futures
Della V. Mosley, Pearis L. Jean, Brittany Bridges, Maria Sobrino, Jeannette Mejia, Sunshine Adam, Garrett Ross, and Roberto Abreu

Chapter 16. Your Self-Care Is Made of Capitalism: A Decolonial Approach to Self and Community Care
Arianne E. Miller and Nellie Tran

Index
About the Editors