Liberation Psychology 1 In press: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology Liberation Social Psychology: Learning From

This is part of a longer project with aims of understanding the development of Latin American Social Psychology of Liberation, and reviewing its potential contribution to theory and practice of applied psychology in the British (and related) context. The article is based on a) reading the literature in Spanish (and where available) in English, but not the Brazilian literature in Portuguese; b) attendance at the International Congresses of Social Psychology for Liberation in 2001 and 2002; c) discussions with Latin American and other colleagues working within this framework; d) visits to Venezuelan community social psychology projects in 1996 and 2002, and e) the responses to an email questionnaire to selected leaders in the field in 2002. We are grateful to Maritza Montero, Jorge Mario Flores, Bernardo Jiménez, Joel Vázquez, Ignacio Dobles, and others for encouragement, discussions, materials, advice on reading and feedback and to Ian Parker for the loan of books