This book presents a theoretical framework developed to support
psychologists working with indigenous people and interethnic
communities. Departing from the cultural shock experienced as a
psychologist working with indigenous people in Brazil, Dr. Danilo Silva
Guimarães identifies the limits of traditional psychological knowledge
to deal with populations who don't share the same ethos of the
European societies who gave birth to psychology as a modern science and
proposes a new approach to go beyond the epistemological project that
aimed to construct a subject able to represent the world free from any
cultural mediation.
According to the author, the purpose of cultural psychology is to
produce general psychological theories about the cultural mediation of
the self, others and world relationships. Based on this assumption, he
argues that to achieve this aim, cultural psychology needs to understand
how indigenous perspectives participate in the process of knowledge
construction, transforming psychological conceptions and practices. In
this volume, the author presents his own contribution to open cultural
psychology to indigenous perspectives by discussing the theoretical and
practical implications of the notion of dialogical multiplication for
the construction of work in co-authorship in the relation between
psychology and indigenous peoples.
With the growing migrations around the world, competences in
psychological communication across cultures are more demanded each day,
which makes Dialogical Multiplication - Principles for an Indigenous
Psychology a critical resource for psychologists working with
interethnic and intercultural communities around the world.
