Freedom from American psychology

Abstract

In this article, I argue that although our society became free in 1994, there is a way in which many psychologists and psychology students remain unfree. The unfreedom of interest is of the epistemic kind. To move from a state of being epistemically unfree to being a free psychologist, I contend that we must jettison American-centric White epistemology, White ignorance and ways of thinking about and doing psychology towards situated epistemologies and practice.