A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth

I'd already recommended this book to quite a few colleagues even before finishing it. Blume's articulation of an Indigenous American Psychological Paradigm is incisive and visionary. There is so much to process over time in his work: from the assumptions of colonialism that have created the “relational psychopathology” that much of modern psychology misconceptualizes (at times willfully!) as individual issues, to how psychologists might move from dispassion to compassion in using the wisdom of behavioral science to further the well-being of all, not just humans. I could go on, but really just read the book. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the work of decolonizing psychology, and I would argue also a must-read for anyone interested in the longevity of psychology as a field at all (which, as Blume makes clear, is only really a worthy goal if psychology can be more expansive in what we mean by well-being and to whose well-being we attend).