Liberation psychology

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Some of the material in this article was previously presented at:- Community and Critical Psychology conference – Birmingham Sept. 2003 British Psychological Society – History and Philosophy section conference, March 2002. Community and Organisational Psychology Research group, Manchester Metropolitan University, January 2002. This is part of a longer project with aims of understanding the development of Latin American Social Psychology of Liberation, and reviewing its potential contribution to theory and practice of applied psychology in the British (and related) context. The article is based on a) reading the literature in Spanish (and where available) in English, but not the Brazilian literature in Portuguese; b) attendance at the International Congresses of Social Psychology for Liberation in 2001 and 2002; c) discussions with Latin American and other colleagues working within this framework; d) visits to Venezuelan community social psychology projects in 1996 and 2002, and e) the resp