Includes bibliographical reference and index.

A historical background: Early Philippine psychology -- The indigenous psychological tradition -- American colonial psychology: Early American psychology minus the laboratory animals -- Indigenizing psychological tests: from apples to papayas -- Identifying with the new culture: from apalachicola to punk -- The meeting of east and west: The German roots -- The Spanish hold in España and Intramuros, Manila -- The Belgian connection in the Cordilleras -- American legacy at Diliman and Manila's university belt -- Toward a liberation psychology: Sikolohiyang Pilipino: a new consciousness in Philippine psychology -- Sociopolitical problems, ethnic diversity, and neocolonialism -- Cultural revalidation and theoretical reorientation -- An alternative psychology literature in Filipino -- Training third world psychologists -- Kapwa and the struggle for justice, freedom, and dignity: Levels of interaction -- The shared inner self -- The value of kagandahang-loob: reciprocity or nobility? -- Karangalan: beyond the superficiality of hiya -- Kalayaan: a matter of life and death -- Katarungan: in unity and beyond -- Beyond pakikisama: equity and fairness -- Katotohanan and katwiran: truth and reason -- Pagkakaisa: justice in unity or consensus -- Kapayapaan (peace): consequence of katarungan as unity -- The filipinization of personality theory: Indigenous identity and the colonial image of the Filipino -- In search of core meanings: the role of language -- Pakikiramdam: the pivotal aspect of kapwa -- The centrality of pakiramdam in behavioral and interpersonal domains -- The internality-externality dimension in pakikiramdam portrait of the compliant Filipino -- The moral dimensions of hiya -- The Filipino self-image and the "blessings" of utang na loob -- Elevating the status of pakikisama: The confrontative Filipino -- Bahala na: determination in the face of uncertainty -- Lakas ng loob: inner resource for change -- Pakikibaka: cooperative resistance -- The development of knowledge and the cultural divide: On the dependency and uni-national dominance view in psychology -- Research approaches to the people's psychology and culture -- "indigenization from within" as basic to the cross-indigenous method -- Philosophical issues in indigenous psychology -- Rationale for the indigenous method -- The development of sikolohiyang Pilipino knowledge -- The indigenous methods as a shared cultural responsibility -- The role of documentation and dissemination -- Traditional Philippine psychology and the indigenous historical perspective -- Science and superstition in the corridors of power and on both sides of the cultural divide -- Liberation psychology and the national culture: The call for relevance -- Indigenous social science and academic criticism -- Sikolkohiyang pangnayon: the return to the village and the upland -- Sikolohiyang pangsining: advocacy for people's art and psychology -- Sikolohiyang pangrelihiyon: babaylanism and Philippine religion -- Sikolohiya ng wika: national consciousness and the indigenous language movement -- Sikolohiya ng bata: the Filipino child, social relevance under martial law, and the newly restored democracy -- Glossary of Philippine psychological terms.