Decolonizing Psychic Space: Remembering the Indigenous Psychology Movement in Taiwan

This project is part of the historical struggle of the indigenous psychology movement in Taiwan. It turns a critical gaze back upon the movement itself in order to decolonize it from colonial cultural imaginary. The contribution of this project is two-fold. First, on the theoretical level, it introduces a critical perspective into the growing body of indigenous psychological research. The indigenous psychology movement risks repeating the vicious cycle of colonization and re-colonization without critically looking back at its own historical trajectory. Second, on the level of intervention, writing the history of the indigenous psychology movement will make this project a crucial first step toward relieving Taiwanese psychologists from the cultural aphasia resulting from the traumatic encounter between two worlds.

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Clinical Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Peng, Rong-Bang

Contributors dc:contributor

• Leswin Laubscher
• Michael Sipiora
• Bruce Fink

• Chinese psychology
• Critical psychology
• Cross-cultural psychology
• Cultural psychology
• Indigenous psychology
• Taiwanese psychology

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1036

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2052