Latina Realities Essays On Healing, Migration, And Sexuality [Paperback]

This book emphasizes psychology's role as a means of human welfare , focusing on the complexities of the psychological development of immigrant women, Latinas, and other women of color and issues relevant to providing psychological services to them.Foreword: The Enigma of ArrivalJourney and Transformation -- Preface -- Experience as a Source of Theory and Method -- Giving Voice to Silence: The Psychologist as Witness -- Roots Uprooted: Autobiographical Reflections on the Psychological Experience of Migration -- Feminist Psychology and Psychotherapy -- Womens Diversity: Ethnicity, Race, Class and Gender in Theories of Feminist Psychology -- Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women of Color -- On Knowing You Are the Unknown: Women of Color Constructing Psychology -- Sexuality -- Cultural and Historical Influences on Sexuality in Hispanic/Latin Women: Implications for Psychotherapy -- Issues of Identity in the Psychology of Latina lesbians -- Immigrant Women and Adolescents -- Psychological Impact of Migration on Latinas: Implications for Psychotherapeutic Practice -- Letters from V.: Adolescent Personality Development in Sociohistorical Context -- Traumatic Historical Events and Adolescent Psychosocial Development: Letters from V. -- Spiritual Power and the Mundane World: Hispanic Female Healers in Urban U.S. Communities -- The Interplay of Migration and Sexuality in Womens lives -- Race, Racism, and Sexuality in the Life Narratives of Immigrant Women -- Leaving the Nation and Joining the Tribe: Lesbian Immigrants Crossing Geographical and Identity Borders