Love in a time of hate : liberation psychology in Latin America / Nancy Caro Hollander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollander, Nancy Caro, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political refugees--Mental health--Latin America.

Political refugees.

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--Mental health--Latin America.

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.

Political persecution--Latin America--Psychological aspects.

Political persecution.

Psychologists--Latin America--Psychology.

Psychologists.

Psychoanalysts--Latin America--Psychology.

Psychoanalysts.

Psychology.

Psychological aspects.

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--Mental health.

Political refugees--Mental health.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xi, 270 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1997]

Summary:

"First, we are going to kill all of the subversives; then their collaborators; then their sympathizers; then the indifferent; and finally, the timid". -- General Iberico Manuel Saint-Jean, governor of Buenos Aires province, 1977

Nancy Caro Hollander profiles ten Argentine, Chilean, and Uruguayan psychologists and psychoanalysts who experienced firsthand, and later strove to comprehend, the crushing political and social oppression that occurred under the military dictatorships in these countries during the 1970s and 1980s.

She recounts how psychoanalysts employed what she calls "liberation psychology" to understand the systematic exploitation suffered by the populace under fiercely repressive regimes and then to help themselves and others to confront and survive a culture of intimidation, coercion, and torture. As Hollander writes in the introduction, the men and women profiled "have striven to understand the interrelationship between alienated personal existence and social relations, between individual anomie and social oppression, and between individual mental health and collective empowerment".-- Introduction to liberation psychology, a new psychological methodology.-- Examination of psychological effects of state terror.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.

ISBN:

0813524253

0813524261

OCLC:

36438925