Global Psychologies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Introduction to Global Psychologies: Mental Health and the Global South

   • Suman Fernando, Roy Moodley

   Pages 1-17

3. Theoretical, Philosophical and Historical Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Varieties of Global Psychology: Cultural Diversity and Constructions of the Self

      • Laurence J. Kirmayer, Ademola Adeponle, Vivian Afi Abui Dzokoto

      Pages 21-37

   3. Reflections on African and Asian Psychologies

      • Suman Fernando

      Pages 39-57

   4. Contexts, Epistemologies and Practices of Global South Psychologies

      • Roy Moodley, Jan van der Tempel

      Pages 59-74

4. Traditions of Psychology in the Global South

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Healing Traditions

      • Olaniyi Bojuwoye, Mokgadi Moletsane-Kekae

      Pages 77-98

   3. The Self in Hindu Philosophies of Liberation

      • Hillary Peter Rodrigues

      Pages 99-118

   4. Buddhist Orientations to Mental Health

      • Hillary Peter Rodrigues

      Pages 119-135

   5. Psychology from an Islamic Perspective

      • Amber Haque

      Pages 137-150

   6. Chinese Cultural Healing: Confucianism and Daoism

      • Kwang-kuo Hwang

      Pages 151-161

   7. Indigenous Psychology in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia

      • Waikaremoana Waitoki, Pat Dudgeon, Linda Waimarie Nikora

      Pages 163-184

   8. Respect and Relationship: A Perspective on Indigenous Mental Health from Turtle Island/North America

      • Michael Thrasher, Julian Robbins

      Pages 185-199

   9. Healing Systems of the Mapuche People in Chile

      • Ana Maria Oyarce

      Pages 201-211

5. Liberation Psychologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Frantz Fanon’s Psychology of Black Consciousness

      • Lewis R. Gordon, LaRose T. Parris

      Pages 215-228

   3. Gandhian Philosophy for Living in the Modern World: Lessons from the Psychology of Satyagraha

      • Vinod K. Kool, Rita Agrawal

      Pages 229-243

   4. The Black Consciousness Psychology of Steve Biko

      • Saths Cooper, Kopano Ratele

      Pages 245-260

6. Contemporary Movements

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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​This book critiques our reliance on Eurocentric knowledge in the education and training of psychology and psychiatry. Chapters explore the diversity of ‘constructions of the self’ in non-Western cultures, examining traditional psychologies from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Pre-Columbian America. The authors discuss liberation psychologies and contemporary movements in healing and psychological therapy that draw on both Western and non-Western sources of knowledge. 


A central theme confronted is the importance, in a rapidly shrinking world, for knowledge systems derived from diverse cultures to be explored and disseminated equally. The authors contend that for this to happen, academia as a whole must lead in promoting cross-national and cross-cultural understanding that is free of colonial misconceptions and prejudices. 


This unique collection will be of value to all levels of study and practice across psychology and psychiatry and to anyone interested in looking beyond Western definitions and understandings. 

• cultural psychology
• cross-cultural psychology
• global mental health
• indigenous psychology
• globalization
• international development
• political psychology
• critical psychiatry
• post-colonialism
• Concepts of Self
• African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
• Hindu Philosophies of Liberation
• al-fitrah
• Mental Health in Buddhism
• Kaupapa Māori psychology
• Mapuche healing
• Liberation Psychologies
• Psychology of Satyagraha
• The Black Consciousness Psychology
• Chinese Taoist Cognitive Psychotherapy

“Global Psychologies: Mental Health and the Global South. In this work, an international group of experts discuss psychology from non-Western perspectives. The result is a fascinating and refreshing look at how psychology must be understood and employed within the full range of contexts, attitudes, values, belief-systems, and religions of the people whom one is attempting to understand and help.” (R. E. Osborne, Choice, Vol. 56 (6), February, 2019)

• London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom

  Suman Fernando

• Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Roy Moodley

Suman Fernando is Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the London Metropolitan University, UK. He was a practicing psychiatrist in the UK for over twenty years and has published and lectured extensively there and in Canada. He has also worked in Sri Lanka. 


Roy Moodley is Associate Professor of Clinical and Counselling Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He teaches and researches in race, culture and psychotherapy; and traditional healing practices. He is the Director for the Center for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Toronto.

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