Liberation Psychology
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.