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Community psychology in the Americas: individualism, communitarism and the exclusion of the political

This paper discusses the end of the political, seen as a common denominator between Community Psychology in North and Latin America. Based on political philosophy, this paper proposes a critical analysis of two positions in Community Psychology, individualism and communitarism, thereby emphasizing the importance of the political in contemporary debates of a psychology engaged in the extension of democratic values.

Community psychology; individualism; communitarism; political


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