A Psychology of Culture (International and Cultural Psychology) – PDF

The eBook titled, “A Psychology of Culture”, explores the essential role that culture plays in fulfilling human needs such as physiological, psychological, and existential needs. The book combines diverse strands of empirical and theoretical knowledge to trace the development of culture as a source of morality, identity, self-esteem, and meaning. The book also examines culture as a driver of domination and upheaval.

The eBook takes an uncommon tour of the human condition and provides stimulating insights into the far-reaching implications for education, intergroup relations, psychology, politics, and social policy. The eBook also takes a closer look at anxiety and self-esteem and how culture can play a role in fulfilling human needs. The book also includes extended examples from past and ongoing hostilities to highlight the resilience of culture in the aftermath of disruption and trauma, and the possibility of reconciliation between conflicting cultures.

This eBook is a useful resource for clinicians, practitioners, students of culture, educators, and any students in medicine, nursing, anthropology, family studies, sociology, social work, counseling, and psychology. It is especially suitable as a graduate textbook. The eBook covers topics such as culture as shared meanings and interpretations, cultural worldviews, cultural trauma and indigenous people, constructing situations for positive intercultural interaction, and much more.