Liberation Practices

Taiwo Afuape is a Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist who has worked with transitional populations, torture survivors in a human rights charity and adults in a mental health systemic service. Currently she is lead psychologist and systemic therapist for Openminded - South Camden Community CAMHS, Tavistock Foundation NHS Trust and Lead systemic therapist of an adult mental psychology and psychotherapy department in CNWL NHS foundation trust. She published Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma in July 2011.Gillian Hughes is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist who currently leads the Child and Family Refugee Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Throughout her career she has worked in the state sector in inner-city locations with marginalised communities as a practitioner and trainer, where she has developed innovative community, systemic and narrative approaches.

Liberatory approaches to nourishing psychological and community well-being are being crafted on every continent, attending to the needs, challenges, and visions of particular local communities. Afaupe and Hughes’ edited volume offers readers an important look at how liberation psychology is being articulated and practiced in a diverse variety of community and clinical settings in the U.K. In doing so, the inspiring work that is featured will help practitioners perceive the interdependence of the social and the psychological and be able to link resistance to oppression with helping to cultivate settings where creativity, emancipatory dialogue, and social transformation thrive. Liberation Practices will also help to open the imagination of cultural workers beyond the UK, contributing to transnational efforts to articulate a broad range of libertory healing practices that are available for contextualized improvisation with local communities suffering in the face of neoliberal globalization. - Mary Watkins, Ph.D., Author of Toward Psychologies of LiberationBeyond liberation psychology and above praxis: A new way to liberate our own practices - Maritza Montero, Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela Central University)

• Part I: Introductory Chapters. Hughes, Afuape, Introducing Ourselves. Hughes, Afuape, Historical Development of Liberation Practices. Hughes, Afuape, Patel, Looking Further at ‘Liberation’; A Critical Perspective. Part II: Working With Young People. Clennon, Holdin' On: Using Music Technology as a Tool of Cultural Liberation With Respect to Performing Masculinities at a Young Offenders' Institution. Hughes, Afuape, What’s Our Story: Centralising Young People’s Experiences of Gangs, Crews, and Collectives, to Develop Services That Promote Wellbeing. Wren, A Clinical Service For Gender Non-Conforming Young People: What Can a Liberation Psychology Perspective Contribute? Clayton, Hughes, The Use of Film and Creative Media to Liberate Young Refugee and Asylum Seeking People From Disempowering Identities - A Dialogical Approach. Part III: Working with Adults. Clennon, Bradley, Afuape and Horgan, "Keeping it Real": Oppression, Liberation, Creativity and Resistance. Byrne, Tungana, Upenyu, Monika, Devota, Janet, Fay, Rose, Rukia, Wonderful, Patience, Becky, Mary, Hope, Lizzy, Linda, Barbie, Uwamaria. ‘Women Can Build a Nation. Our Disease, HIV, Cannot Stop us to be Mothers Because we are the Mothers of the Nations’: A Liberation Approach. Castro Romero, Liberatory Praxis Alongside Elders. Nylund, Waddle, Breaking Out of the Gender Binary: Liberating Transgender Prisoners. Part IV: Teaching and Practice Within Wider Systems. Hughes, Bisimwa, Hard to Reach Services? Liberating Ourselves From the Constraints of Our Practice. Castro Romero, Teaching Liberation Psychology. Peña and Garcia, A Story of Political Consciousness and Struggle Across Time and Place. Part V: Issues and Dilemmas. Afonu, Kovacova, Unwin, Is it Possible to Take a Liberation Approach as a Clinical Psychology Trainee? Afuape, Afuape, Is Psychoanalysis a Liberation Approach? African Sisters in Dialogue. Kagan, Burton, Towards and Beyond Liberation Psychology. Part VI: Reflections on Practice. Moane, Hughes and Afuape, A Passion For Change: Liberation Practices and Psychology