Psychology and the Developing World

Previous leading commentators on the development of psychology in the Third World have conceived of three major stages: an attempt to assimilate Western psychology, with predictably negative results; the study of indigenous constructs, with more relevant applications; and, finally, transcending stage one and stage two to choose theories and methods on their applied merit alone. Psychology and the Developing World has been assembled to document how close psychology has come to researching that stage. Contributors were carefully selected to provide a unique overview of the latest applications of the discipline as a whole. Their work reveals how psychology is being applied to educational needs, management needs, and health needs. This book shows how development studies and allied disciplines cannot ignore psychology's potential for the Third World.

STUART C. CARR is Professor of Psychology at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand.
JOHN F. SCHUMAKER is a retired clinical psychologist, academic,author,and social critic who lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick,Canada. For 35 years prior to moving to Canada, he and his musicianwife Cheryl Shantz lived in New Zealand, Australia, and before thatZambia, South Africa, and the USA. His self-authored books are In Search of Happiness: Understanding an Endangered State of Mind (Kindle 2016;Penguin Books2006; German edition Das Manipulierte Gluck: Von dentrügerischen Verheißungen der Konsumkultur: WJS, Berlin); The Age ofInsanity:Modernity and Mental Health (Praeger); The Corruption ofReality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology(PrometheusBooks); and Wings of Illusion (Prometheus Books). His edited books are Religion and Mental Health (Oxford University Press), HumanSuggestibility (Routledge); Cultural Cognition andPsychopathology(Praeger); Psychology and the Developing World (Praeger); Motivation and Culture (Routledge); and Perspectives on Belief andExperience (PrismPress). Schumaker's essays include "Reality andUnreality: The Growing Power of the Lie" (2020, LA Progressive), andseveral essays published in the UK by The New Internationalist magazine, among them "The Personality Crisis," "The Demoralized Mind," "TheHappiness Conspiracy," "The Triumph of Triviality," "Utopia or Bust,""Dying for the Things We Love," "Earth Warrior," "Dead Zone," and"Starstruck." His earlier essays from various other sourcesinclude "Killing the Things We Love," "Rubber Soul," "Ocean Warrior,""Immune to Satisfaction," and "Mark of the Beast."