In our inaugural Liberation Now Podcast, Dr. Helen Neville speaks with pioneering clinical psychologist, Dr. Lillian Comas-Díaz who has a new co-edited book, Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice and Social Justice .

Dr. Comas-Díaz shares information about her personal liberation journey, insights from her new book, and how she applies liberation psychological principles in her clinical work. If you are interested in the history and contemporary practice of liberation psychology this episode is for you.

About Dr. Lillian Comas-Díaz

Lillian Comas-Díaz, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice, and a clinical professor at the George Washington University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  The former director of the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs of the American Psychological Association, she was a faculty member of the Yale University Department of Psychiatry, where she also directed its Hispanic Clinic. The author of over 170 professional publications, Dr. Comas-Díaz has written extensively on the interaction of culture, gender, race, ethnicity, and social class in mental health. Her recent books include: Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice and Social Justice (co-edited with Edil Torres Rivera), Multicultural Care: A Clinician’s Guide to Cultural Competence; Womanist and Mujerista Psychologies: Voices of Fire, Acts of Courage (co-edited with T. Bryant Davis); and, Latina Psychologists: Thriving in the Cultural Borderlands (co-edited with C. I. Vazquez). As a clinician-scholar-activist, Dr. Comas-Díaz has participated in fact-finding delegations investigating human right abuses in Chile, the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and South Africa. She received the 2019 American Foundation Association /American Psychological Association Gold Medal Lifetime Award in the Practice of Psychology.

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Show Credits:

Introduction and music by Amir Maghsoodi and Briana Williams. Podcast and episode artwork by B. Andi Lee and Amir Maghsoodi. Episode editing by Helen A. Neville and Amir Maghsoodi.