Filipino Psychology

Filipino Psychology
FOUR FILIATIONS OF PHILIPPINE PSYCHOLOGY

A. Academic Scientific Psychology. The Western Tradition
a. 1879 – birth of German Tradition Scientific Psychology
b. 1920 – Entry through U.P. mainly the American tradition.
B. Academic Philosophical Psychology. The Western (mainly clerical) Tradition

a. Entry is through U.S.T. and later other schools of higher education, individual
monks and preachers, The Jesuits, Thomistic Philosophy and Psychology,
continuing study of psychology s an aspect of philosophy.
C. Ethnic Psychology – Sikolohiyang Etniko as major basis of Sikolohiyang Pilipino.

a. Indigenous Psychology (Katutubong Sikolohiya)
i. Common to the Filipinos who oftentimes are unaware of it. This frame of
psychological reason or theory can be culled principally from language ,
literature, etc. but only as principles (specifically, this can be called
Kinagisnang Sikolohiya).
ii. Psychologies or psychological systems worked out by Filipinos with
indigenous elements as basis. Example Hermano Pule, Rizal, Isabelo de los
Reyes, Kalaw, Mercado, etc. Mainly reactive, resulting from contact with
other cultures and from acculturative experience. Kattubong Sikolohiya
per se.
b. Psychology of Filipinos (as observed by foreigners or as felt and expressed by
Filipinos)
i. Based on mainly Western System of Thought: Chinese, Spaniards then
other foreigners.
ii. At first unrecorded, but can be culled from Filipino language, literature,
stray comments by Filipinos.
c. The practice of psychology by Filipinos: 1) Normal techniques of enculturation/
socialization; 2) Proto-clinical practice
i. Enculturation socialization. Indigenous techniques or as affected by
Christianity or Islam, their survival up to our days (cf. reading techniques,
use of literature, beliefs, legends, myths, etc.
ii. Cf. Ancient techniques of group therapy (poetry and alternating chants
during wakes, consensus, etc.) their survival to the present in various
Philippine contexts, tagapayo, manghuhula, use of dreams.
D. Psycho – Medical System with Religion as the Cohesive Element and Explanation
a. The Babaylan or Katalonan; techniques of healing; theory of disease; its causation
and therapy.
i. Messianic movement “espiritista” Faith healing
ii. Survival in towns and villages, overt or covert herbolaryo
MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO AS AN INDIGENOUS ASIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Philosophical Antecedents
 Empirical Philosophy, academic-scientific psychology, the ideas and teachings of Ricardo
Pascual, logical analysis of language.
 Rational Philosophy, the clerical tradition, phenomenology, Thomistic philosophy and
psychology.
 Liberalism, the propaganda movement, the writings of Jacinto, Mabini and Del Pilar,
ethnic psychology
Principal emphasis in psychology

 Identity and national consciousness
 Social awareness and social involvement
 Psychology of language and culture
 Application and bases of Filipino psychology in health practices, agriculture, art, mass
media, religion
Principal methods of investigation

 Cross-indigenous method
 Multi-method multi-language, laboratory, psychometric, etc.
 Appropriate field methods, pagtatanong-tanong, pakikiramdam, panunuluyan,
pakikipamuhay
 Total approach: “triangulation method”
Primary Areas of Protest

 Against a psychology that perpetuates the colonial status of the Filipino mind.
 Against a psychology used for the exploitation of the masses.
 Against the imposition to the Third World country of psychologies developed in
industrialized countries.
Position on Psychological Practice

 Conceptualization of psychological practice in a Philippine context
 Concerned with folk practices/ indigenous techniques, babaylan or katalonan techniques
of healing, Popular religio-political movements. Community/rural psychology
Position on Science-Humanism issue

 Concerned with both. Scientific and humanistic approaches are both valid. Develops
psychology as a science and psychology as an art.
Position on Mentalism-Behaviorism issue

 Admitted both but with lesser emphasis on individual experience and with greater
emphasis on the collective experience of a people with a common bond of history.
 Greater importance attached to Kamalayan (psyche) thus, subsidiary importance
attached to ulirat (lower level of physical consciousness).

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FOUR FILIATIONS OF PHILIPPINE PSYCHOLOGY

B. Academic Philosophical Psychology. The Western (mainly clerical) Tradition

C. Ethnic Psychology – Sikolohiyang Etniko as major basis of Sikolohiyang Pilipino.

Principal emphasis in psychology

Principal methods of investigation

Primary Areas of Protest

Position on Psychological Practice

Position on Science-Humanism issue

Position on Mentalism-Behaviorism issue

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