The Institutionalization Of Two Practices Of Psychology In Chile: Community Psychology And The Human Rights Psychology

Authors

  • Isabel Piper Doctora en Psicología Social, Académica del Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This paper presents the reconstruction of some aspects of the practice of Chilean psychology in two critical areas; Community SocialPsychology and Human Rights Psychology. It discusses the character of these practices which arose during the 1960s and 1970s asan expression of dissent. It is suggested that they were the result of certain social conditions in which they actually represented alternativesto the dominant forms of psychology, and practices of political resistance to the social conditions prevailing at that time.    

Keywords:

Critical psychology, community psychology, social intervention, human rights, atonement, social transformation