Addressing psychology to antiracism.

Reviews the book, A Psychology of Liberation and Peace: For the Greater Good by Chalmer E. F. Thompson (2019). Thompson's book makes a timely and an important contribution to scholarship on peace psychology and liberation psychology, both of which are understood as operating alongside one another, as a piece, throughout the book. Located in Palgrave Macmillan’s Pan-African Psychologies series, the book addresses both of these psychologies to the problem of racism in the United States. The respective languages, histories, and traditions of peace and liberation psychology appear to be of less concern to Thompson than how psychologists enact peace and liberation. Thompson is, in this sense, exemplary in ensuring that social problems, rather than static psychological theories, are what drive her work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research