Toward Psychologies of Liberation
Literal and Metaphorical Migrations in the Polycrisis
March 22, 2023 Interview of Mary Watkins by Michael Lerner, The New School at Commonweal
As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls — literal and metaphorical — between citizens and newcomers. Join depth psychologist, professor, and author Mary Watkins in conversation with Host Michael Lerner about the cultural and community transformation happening in these times.
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Seeing from the “South”
Three-part Video Lecture Series from 2021
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Ecopsychosocial Accompaniment ( 29 min audio )
Ecopsychosocial Accompaniment: Re-Membering and Common-ing The Euro-American individualistic paradigm that undergirds much of psychological theory and practice blinds us to the historical context and legacies of colonialism, capitalism, and racism that continue to afflict us: the enclosure of commons for accumulation of profit, and slavery-forced migrations that broke familial and community relationships, as well as relationships to land and place. The parallel criminalisation of the poor in order to create free labour led to prisons and policing, disproportionately affecting black and brown peoples. How are we to re-member our relations to the Earth and to our neighbours, citizen and non-citizen? What are the affective labour and relational actions that remain undone for us to re-engage in common-ing – the co-creation of just and sustainable relationships? How might shifting clinical practice toward ecopsychosocial accompaniment assist in supporting and building commons?
Ecopsychosocial Accompaniment
Ecopsychosocial Accompaniment
Weaving the Fabric of Our Lives through Mutual Accompaniment
Zoom Seminar Presented by Prof. Mary Watkins (1hr 10min)
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Keeping the Door Open
in a Time of Walling-out and Walling-in (2 hrs)
An online presentation for psychotherapy colleagues in Brazil — Sept. 11, 2020
(English and Portuguese. Two minute introduction in Portuguese. M. Watkins presentation in English.)
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Opening Doors in the Borderlands
An Interview with Liberation Psychologist Mary Watkins MIA’s Micah Ingle interviews Mary Watkins about reorienting psychology toward liberation and social justice.
“Pathways to Mutual Accompaniment”
The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence, Seminar Series on “Becoming Who Animals Need Us to Be.”
Climates of Change and the Therapy of Ideas
Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. 4/24/16.
Accompaniment and the Commons-to-Come
Accompaniment and the Commons-to-Come
Mary Watkins speaks at the California Institute for Integral Studies about her recent work on “Accompaniment: Psychosocial, Trans-species, and Earth Based.” Mary’s work blends depth psychology with practices of liberation psychology formulated by Ignacio Martin-Baro.
Re-Imagining the US-Mexico Border
Produced by: KBOO for Old Mole Variety Hour Air date: Mon, 02/08/2016 – 12:00am 9min 36sec Liberation psychology and re-imagining the US-Mexico Border Tod Sloan interviews Mary Watkins, liberation psychologist and co-author of Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the US-Mexico Border.
Re-Imagining the US-Mexico Border
Re-Imagining the US-Mexico Border