From Colonial to Liberation Psychology

Summary

A pioneer’s gathering-up of Sikolohiyang Pilipino, the Filipino psychology Virgilio Enriquez developed. By the publisher’s account, it sets out psychology’s colonial background in the Philippines and applies indigenous concepts to health, education, law and the arts. A later scholarly account reports that it recasts familiar ‘Filipino values’ as surface values, with kapwa, shared identity, at the core.

Rationale

We met kapwa in conversation: it “came up during an interview with Leni Velasco”. This book, added afterwards, is a written source from the psychologist who developed the concept.