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Liberation Psychology

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Liberation Psychology

Issue 50 – June 2017 Author: Steve Melluish (contact via steven.coles@nottshc.nhs.uk)

Key points

  • Liberation psychology is a framework for taking account of how people and communities are shaped by their experience and history of oppression.
  • Oppression results from an unequal society where social structures based on differences of race, gender, and class disadvantage large numbers of people
  • Psychological distress is understood not solely in terms of the individual’s immediate circumstances but in the context of these wider social structures and injustices.