Lillian Comas-D amp iacute az, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in Washington, DC, the executive director of the Transcultural Mental Health Institute, and a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association (APA) Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Practice of Psychology, and a past president of APA Division 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice). Dr. Comas-D amp iacute az is the coeditor of Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice Latina Psychologists: Thriving in the Cultural Borderlands Womanist and Mujerista Psychologies: Voices of Fire, Acts of Courage Multicultural Care: A Clinician's Guide to Cultural Competence and Psychological Health of Women of Color. Hector Y. Adames, PsyD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Wright State University in Ohio and completed his doctoral internship at the Boston University School of Medicine's Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology. He is a licensed psychologist, professor at The Chicago School, College of Professional Psychology, and cofounder and codirector of the IC-RACE Lab (Immigration Critical Race and Cultural Equity Lab). He has earned several awards, including the 2 8 Distinguished Emerging Professional Research Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race, a division of APA. Dr. Adames has coauthored several books including Speaking the Unspoken: Breaking the Silence, Myths, and Taboos That Hurt Therapists and Patients Succeeding as a Therapist: How to Create a Thriving Practice in a Changing World Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide and Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and Within-Group Differences. Follow Dr. Adames on Twitter, Instagram, and Spoutible or visit the IC-RACE Lab (icrace.org). Nayeli Y. Chavez-Due amp ntilde as, PhD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the APA-accredited program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is a professor at The Chicago School, College of Professional Psychology, where she serves as the faculty coordinator for the concentration in Latinx mental health in the counseling psychology department. She is the codirector of the IC-RACE Lab (Immigration, Critical Race, and Cultural Equity Lab). She has earned several awards, including the 2 8 APA Distinguished Citizen Psychologist Award. Dr. Chavez-Due amp ntilde as has coauthored several books including Speaking the Unspoken: Breaking the Silence, Myths, and Taboos That Hurt Therapists and Patients Succeeding as a Therapist: How to Create a Thriving Practice in a Changing World Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide and Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and Within-Group Differences. Follow Dr. Chavez-Due amp ntilde as on Twitter, Instagram, and Spoutible or visit the IC-RACE Lab (icrace.org).
This book is explosive in the way that fireworks are explosive it dazzles with its fire, it illuminates dark places in psychology, it celebrates the light towards which we can all go. At a time when our discipline is teetering on the precipice where we can choose to go backwards towards the Eurocentric frameworks that have defined and restrained psychology since its inception, or allow ourselves to have the courage to join in the liberatory project of decolonizing our understanding of humans in every setting, through all possible intersectional lenses, this volume is our guidebook to the territory of this emerging, powerful paradigm. Essential reading for all of us for those, like myself, decades in the field for those who teach and train and do research for those offering healing. Brava/o to editors and authors alike. - Laura S. Brown, PhD, ABPP, independent practice; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle; and past president of APA Divisions 35, 44, 56 and Washington State Psychological Association Comas-D amp iacute az, Adames, and Chavez-Due amp ntilde as have aptly responded to an urgent call to examine past and current impacts of colonization on the discipline of psychology. The authors, in this significant volume, provide compelling information that is the basis for a sea change in how we approach theory, research, teaching, and practice. The authors amp rsquo rich examples bring to life the profound problems of colonization as well as the profound potential for decolonial psychology. - Pratyusha (Usha) Tummala-Narra, PhD, Boston University, Boston, MA Few disciplines have taken the recent challenges of decolonization and the decolonial turn more seriously than the branches of psychology in the Global South that explore the linkages between subjectivity, community, and social life. Yet, the task is barely starting. Building on the work of figures like the famed psychiatrist and revolutionary fighter, Frantz Fanon, among others, the editors and authors in this book seek to further illuminate the path of decolonization, anticolonialism, and decoloniality in the contemporary world. The anthology provides invaluable resources in the effort to infuse psychology with decolonial transdisciplinary approaches, thereby taking psychology beyond its modern-colonial horizons. An essential reference for anyone heeding the call to consider decolonization as an unfinished project and as an imperative today. - Nelson Maldonado-Torres, PhD, University of Connecticut, Storrs