Bhatia Sunil
Department of Human Development, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320-4196, USA.
Hist Psychol. 2002 Nov;5(4):376-98. doi: 10.1037/1093-4510.5.4.376.
The author examines the historical role of Euro-American psychology in constructing Orientalist representations of the natives who were colonized by the European colonial powers. In particular, the author demonstrates how the power to represent the non-Western "Other" has always resided, and still continues to reside, primarily with psychologists working in Europe and America. It is argued that the theoretical frameworks that are used to represent non-Westerners in contemporary times continue to emerge from Euro-American psychology. Finally, the author discusses how non-Western psychologists internalized these Orientalist images and how such a move has led to a virtual abandonment of pursuing "native" forms of indigenous psychologies in Third World psychology departments.
作者考察了欧美心理学在构建欧洲殖民列强所殖民的当地人的东方主义表征方面的历史作用。具体而言，作者展示了表征非西方“他者”的权力一直主要掌握在欧美心理学家手中，并且现在仍然如此。有人认为，当代用于表征非西方人的理论框架仍然源自欧美心理学。最后，作者讨论了非西方心理学家如何内化这些东方主义形象，以及这样的举动如何导致第三世界心理学系几乎放弃追求本土形式的本土心理学。
