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Political Consciousness (political + consciousness)
Selected AbstractsEthnic identity in urban African American youth: Exploring links with self-worth, aggression, and other psychosocial variablesJOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2002Susan D. McMahon This study represents an attempt to examine the relative influences of ethnic identity and global self-worth on aggression, coping, and adjustment among urban African American adolescents. Findings suggest that ethnic identity was associated with a range of positive feelings about oneself and health-related outcomes. When taking into account global self-worth, youth with a greater sense of ethnic/racial identity reported more active coping strategies, fewer beliefs supporting aggression, and fewer aggressive behaviors. A strong positive sense of global self-worth was significantly related to lower levels of anxiety and depression, and greater beliefs supporting aggressive behavior, when taking into account ethnic identity. Examining these constructs in combination can yield insight into the processes involved in competence and adjustment among at-risk youth. This study suggests that ethnic identity is an important component of development, and that we should consider examining and strengthening ethnoracial and political consciousness among youth in preventive interventions. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] The politics of complexes,PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2009Lawrence Alschuler Abstract The complex, a central concept of analytical psychology, contributes to an understanding of political consciousness in at least three ways: in tracing the influence of complexes on political attitudes; in treating oppressed consciousness as an expression of a cultural complex; and in viewing psychopolitical healing as the integration of split-off complexes in the oppressed. Case studies of Native people demonstrate the application of these ideas to the context of oppression. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Trauma as a metaphor: the politics of psychotherapy after September 11PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1 2005Karen SeeleyArticle first published online: 9 JAN 200 Abstract This paper explores the links between mental health practice and politics by examining the implications of turning persons harmed by an act of mass violence into patients with psychiatric disorders, and of prescribing psychotherapy to treat reactions to terrorism. It first considers the interpretative aspects of diagnosis, the social and political implications of particular diagnostic categories, the history of PTSD, and the phenomenon of medicalization. It then looks at the ways psychotherapists privatize social and political experience by emphasizing the personal consequences of community catastrophes, and by helping individuals transform collective history into personal narratives. In closing, it asks whether mental health discourses depoliticize experience, thereby discouraging political engagement and the development of political consciousness. Copyright © 2005 Whurr Publishers Ltd. [source] Shaped on the Anvil of Mars: Vance and Nettie Palmer and the Great WarAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2007Deborah Jordan In Australia as elsewhere within the belligerent nations of the Great War, dissenting thinkers were marginalised with the mobilisation of militarism. Vance and Nettie Palmer, Australia's most important literary partnership in the interwar period, were initially critical of the war, their response typical of the English radical intelligentsia among whom they were living at the time of its outbreak. Forced back to Australia in 1915, the Palmers had to re-establish themselves in its increasingly turbulent intellectual battlefields. Nettie's earlier anti-war beliefs and cosmopolitanism were undermined while Vance became ever more deeply enmeshed in a discourse concerning the virtues of the "ordinary people", which encompassed the men of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). Nevertheless, in their extensive writings about Australia, neither Palmer ever endorsed the legend of the heroic Anzacs. The Great War, however, profoundly shaped their political consciousness and their choice of genre and writing strategies, as it did others of their literary generation. This article will show that the war was a far more important influence on their work than usually acknowledged in Australian literary scholarship, and thereby reveal some of the cultural patterns that shaped their generation of Australian radical writers and intellectuals , particularly in Melbourne, arguably the heartland for the tradition of democratic literary nationalism which the Palmers have been seen to epitomise. [source] | ||||||||||