Current Perspectives in Sikolohiyang Pilipino

It took a while that i am able to update this site considering my MA graduation, two teaching stint, and now a full-time PhD student in clinical psychology at UST. I am currently a volunteer psychologist at the UST Graduate School Psychotrauma Clinic.

A lot of things changed with the initial status i have left in this site. For example, I attended last year the First International Conference on Indigenous and Cultural Psychology and inauguration of the Asian Association for Indigenous and Cultural Psychology held at the University Gadja Madah at Jogjakarta, Indonesia (see http://cicp.psikologi.ugm.ac.id/icicp2010/). A week earlier to that, I attended the postgraduate course class of Dr. Uichol Kim on indigenous psychology as well. But what was interesting about this momentous event is seeing in person Dr. Rogelia Pe-Pua in action talking about IP and SP. Also there was none other than the SP movers in UP like Prof. Jay Yacat, Prof. Chei Billedo, Prof. Tonton Clemente, and Dr. Ces Conaco. Dr. Made Sta. Maria of De La Salle Manila was there as well.

November of the same year in 2010, I attended the National Conference of the PSSP now SEC-registered as the National Association for Filipino Psychology (see http://sikolohiyangpilipino.org/). I was able to meet Dr. Pe-Pua, Dr. Sta. Maria and the SP front-runners especially with the interesting highlight of a roundtable discussion on what lies ahead for SP. I had the video of the entire event but blast my laptop crashed so i have with me the memories of the event.

I will post the table of contents of the compilation i made with the same title of this post. As a preview, the compilation was made as a voluminous collection of "current" take on what is SP and to provide a new alternative material/resource for teachers teaching SP. Portion of the compilation is funded from a grant i obtained while doing my preliminary work with SP way back in 2003. Although the material is not official, the material can be obtained freely thru me but you have to provide necessary information about your interest with the field to get a copy.

Anyways, my work as a research psychologist is still linked with SP but not in the "within" way but by linking indigenous constructs with (Western) clinical constructs. I am interested in indigenous personality models, personality traits, and psychopathology (with major concentration on dark triad, psychopathy, and personality disorders). My MA thesis paper was about personality and psychopathy (http://www.scribd.com/doc/46545970/Normal-Personality-Traits-as-Predictors-of-Psychopathy-doc-for-Sad-Veritatem-2010) and a recent term paper i made was about indigenous personality and the dark triad (http://www.scribd.com/doc/51364810/Utilizing-Filipino-Indigenous-Traits-In-Understanding-the-Dark-Triad-of-Personality).

I might have problems visiting this blogspot for this year because of my busy schedule on doing research papers but you may post in my wall at my facebook account at http://www.facebook.com/john.untalan. Introduce yourself, your story, and email me...

Trends and Development of an Indigenous Psychology: The Case for Sikolohiyang Pilipino

In this study, i decided to research for publication of SP (or any published papers related or concerned to it) from 1990 to 2004 using archival and internet research. The basis for using publication research is to understand whether there is link between maturation and publication. That is, the more publication of such field is witnessed, the more its substance (i.e., theory, methods, and concepts) are maturing or tested to be good thesis. (In data collection, i decided to use major libraries in the Luzon area (e.g., U.P., DLSU, ADMU, and UST) and the EBSCO Database. This preference goes with the assumption that most of important or major publications of SP might be found in libraries where there is lack of national circulation or press releases of Filipino books.)

In my study, i was able to recover 140 studies that are published in national and international journals, books, and edited readings. In this classification, one of the significant finding is that most of the studies discuss in details painstakingly "What is Sikolohiyang Pilipino?" for the audience reader. There is less studies regarding theoretical building that are related to developing a pure Filipino concepts. Researchers are also inclined to study the much debated "Pagkataong Pilipino" versus "Filipino Personality" such as the hiya, amor propyo, pakikisama, and utang na loob. There is less studies geared toward application of the Sikolohiyang Pilipino and much preference to studies on gender (e.g. masculinity or pagkalalake) from recent publications of SP.

Most of these studies are found in scholarly publication journals and most of them are published nationally. However, there is a question whether how representative does national means and where is the SP if disseminated nationally since much of the activity regarding SP is found in Manila where the SP (at the Dept. of Psychology, UP) and PSSP (National Association For Sikolohiyang Pilipino) is found.

In terms of yearly publication, the number of publication of SP researchers are sporadic. In my gathered data, in 1993, there is only one published paper regarding SP. In terms of authorship, most of SP studies are published singly. This means that the activity of research within SP is centered within 1 person only. In this case, there would be difficulty in processing studies of SP since it does not reach a wide audience since the transfer of knowldege is passed from one person to another. Rarely, collaboration of authors reaches to seven authors but nonetheless, it is questionable how does these seven authors provided knowledge on such study. (In assumption, that is, out of the seven authors, majority of them may have just collected the data and minority of them processed and finalized the output).

Unlikely what Enrqiuez has envisioned, much of the studies i gathered were oriented with indigenization-from-without. I doubt how is the indigenization-from-within works. This has arised when some papers often mention SP but the problem is, when one reads the process and method of derivation (including theorization), much are still importing and using the imposed etic. This means, in my own opinion, that there are those researchers who are joing the bandwagon of indigenous psychology (Adair, 1993) not aware that they are disguising their Western ideas in order to be appreciated that they partake with the cultural/indignization movement. Like the problem of indigenization approaches, another problem arises is the problem of language. Much of the studies gathered are English-written texts. This means that knowledge building is discussed in a foreign tongue. For example, Pe-Pua and Protacio-Marcelino's tribute paper was published in English in 2000 for the Asian Journal of Social Psychology. Two years after it was read at the Silver Jubilee of the IACCP in 1998 held at Washinton USA. It took another two years, in 2002, when it was publishd in Tagalog by the PSSP under Navarro and Yacat. In my own undertanding, this particular dilemma of language is of political and personal interests by the researchers. But as to what motive this is, that remains to be discovered.

The concept of culture perhaps is the most difficult understanding one would look at to SP. Sikolohiyang Pilipino partakes confusion of being an indigenous psychology and a cultural psychology. Perhaps, Yang (2000) is right to note that such psychology from the Philippines is of monocultural indigenous psychology. Such monocultural is that of the cultural background SP has introduced. These cultural background is reflected with the language, that is, the Filipino-Tagalog language. Since the Philippines is of many ethnic cultural group with many language orientations, there is difficulty how can SP representative of the whole Filipino culture wherein much of its concept are of Filipino-Tagalog orientation (it is to note that there are some terms which are already assimilated by the Filipino-Tagalog terms borrowing from other cultural languages, in this case, this words though borrowed have different meaning for the Tagalogs who have used such words).

The purpose of my study was to best give a picture of maturation for SP. But the results showed a different story. There is much controversy and problem regarding the definition of SP and how does theoretization by empiricism works within this approach/movement. Perhaps, its greatest contribution, that the importance of culture, is widely recognized by most researchers in psychology and has been partly mainstreamed in psychological studies but as to SP as another kind of psychology or a state of psychology, that is another story to tell which needs years to embark.

(This paper was read at the 14th Regional Convention of the Psychological Association of the Philippines, Supreme Hotel, Baguio City, May 23-26, 2005.)

A Discourse on Psychic Healing in the Philippines

A Discourse on Psychic Healing in the Philippines: An Altered States of Consciousness Experience

Victoria Ching and J. Hermes C. Untalan
Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas

ABSTRACT. We report in this paper a brief seminal history of psychic
healing in the Philippines using content analysis of selected published
books and articles concerning psychic healing and its phenomena. We
divide categories by (1) knowing the definition and nature of psychic
healing, (2) who does psychic healing and when does one becomes a
psychic healer, and lastly (3) benefits, myths, and controversies of psychic
healing. We progress in the report by validating our content research by
conducting an interview with a psychic healer. Such questions we raised
include the aforementioned categories. Additional to these categories are
some descriptive and narrative insights concerning the experiences of a
psychic healer (e.g., his methodology of psychic healing, an intervening
divination or spirits). We end our report by summarizing the two
previous studies and by formulating an answer to the phenomenon of
psychic healing using a psychological science perspective—an altered
state of consciousness experience.

Key Words: Psychic Healing, Psychic Healing in the Philippines, Faith
Healing, Psychic Surgery, Altered States of Consciousness, Psychological
Science, Parapsychology


Ching, V., & Untalan, J. H. C. (2005). A discourse on psychic healing in the Philippines: An altered states ofconsciousness experience. Paper submitted to Dr. A. Lopez in Altered States of Consciousness (2nd SY 2004-2005), University of Santo Tomas Graduate School, Manila, 05 February, 2005. Unpublished manuscript.Not for citation.

Request for reprints is available: please send email to jh_untalan@yahoo.com

Research Interest

Four Decades of Existence: The Status of Psychology as Reflected in the Philippine Journal of Psychology (1965-2005)

J. Hermes C. Untalan
Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas

Research status: In progress, data on verification

I am currently indexing and abstracting the whole volume of the Philippine Journal of Psychology (PJP). The study is concerned with national status of psychology in publication research journal. Albeit the study of PJP is not as comprehensive as it seems, it is one of the core journal of psychology in the Philippines. I will try to expand the study to other psychology-related and other-related journals locally and internationally. I already have indexed the 1993-2004 volumes. Index and abstract of the1965-1992 is currently in progress.

Wanted: Research collaborators

The research is an independent research, no instituional/organizational body is supporting this study. Since I am relying on my allowance, i would need researcher collaborators with this study (either professors or students) who could help me build the database using their own resources.

What am i going to get (interested parties): research collaborators who would contribute a big portion to the database would be included as co-author of the study.

I am needing of Visayas and Mindanao correspondents who are interested with searching in your provinces journals that have published psychology and psychology-related studies in order to get a national perspective of published studies concerning psychology.

Where to contact me:

John Hermes C. Untalan
Snail mail: 22-3 Rudecon Homes, Sitio Mabilog, Culiat, Quezon City 1128
Mobile No.: (0916) 2153370
Email add: jh_untalan@yahoo.com / johnhermes_untalan@yahoo.com

Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino Psychology) Syllabus

Chapter I
Introduction: What is an Indigenous Psychology?
1. Difference with Cross-Cultural, Cultural, Ethnopsychology, and Volkerpsychology.
2. Global Indigenous Psychology
3. Basic Tenets and Principles in IP?
4. Types and Levels of Indigenization
5. Current Trends and Directions

Chapter II
Sikolohiyang Pilipino: Philippine Indigenous Psychology
1. What is Sikolohiyang Pilipino?
2. Basic Tenets and Principles in SP
3. Philippine Psychology and Psychology in the Philippines.
4. History of SIkolohiyang Pilipino
5. Fields in Sikolohiyang Pilipino (see Chapter VI: 5)
6. Sikolohiyang Pilipino and Philippine Social Sciences (Agham-tao; Pilipinolohiya at Pantayong Pananaw) [see clemen aquino]

Chapter III
Pagkataong Pilipino: Indigenous Filipino Personality
1. Enriquez' Filipino Personality Theory
2. IPC Filipino Personality
3. Salazar's Kaluluwa at Budhi
4. Covar's Bayang Dalumat at Pagkataong Pilipino
5. Alejo's Loob
6. Filipino Personality and Values in Theology (Manggay, Talisayon), Philosophy (Quito; Gripaldo), Literature (Lumbera)and Arts (others: Licuanan, Fernandez)
7. Filipino Trait and Personality Psychology by Church and Katigbak
8. Sta Maria's Filipino self

Chapter IV
Katutubong Panukat na Sikolohikal: Indigenous Personality Measurement
1. Panukat ng Pagkataong Pilipino by Carlota
2. Panukat ng Ugali at Pagkatao by Enriquez and Guanzon-Lapena
3. Locally-Developed Psychological Tests by Cipres-Ortega and Guanzon-Lapena
4. Discussions on new developed indigenous/local psychological tests

Chapter V
Katutubong Pamamaraan ng Pananaliksik: Indigenous Research Methods
1. Basic Tenets and Principles in an Indigenous Research Methods
2. Pakikiramdam: Isang Mahalagang Sangkap sa Pananaliksik (Mataragnon)
3. Enriquez and Santiago's Iskala ng Mananaliksik
4. Pakikipagkuwentuhan (Orteza; Javier)
5. Pagtatanung-tanong (Pe-Pua)
6. Ginabayang Talakayan (Galvez; Aguiling-Dalisay)
7. Pakikipanuluyan, Nakikiugaling Pagmamasid, Pakapa-kapa, Pagmumuni

Chapter VI
Fields in Filipino Psychology: Applied and Social Psychology
1. Filipino political psychology (montiel); social cognition (conaco); peace and conflict resolution (sta maria)
2. Filipino sexuality and gender; Filipino Feminism (claudio-estrada; tan; guerrero)
3. Filipino Psychotherapy (bautista; protacio-de castro; carandang; clemena)
4. Sikolohiyang Panlipunan-at-Kalinangan (salazar; sta maria)
5. Unang Dekada ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino (protacio-marcelino at pe-pua)
6. Filipino Social Psychology (gastardo-conaco) and pahiwatig (manggay)
7. new directions: volunteering (aguiling-dalisay, yacat, and navarro); developmental psychology (liwag)

Chapter VII
Closing Indigenous Psychologies
1. Critique in Sikolohiyang Pilipino and Indigenous Psychologies
2. Paper Presentations of Research and Reaction Papers
3. Seminar/Workshop in Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Draft Paper: tentative status
References: see list

References in SIkolohiyang Pilipino

Joy B. Alvarez (1975) Hiya: kahulugan, manipestasyon at kadahilanan. In V.G. Enriquez (ed.) Pagkataong Pilipino: I. Layunin, Ugali, Katangian at Pakikipagkapwa. (pp. 115-126). Quezon City: Department of Psychology, University of the Philippines.

Isidro Panlasigui (1977) Ang Sikolohiya ng mga Pilipino. In V.G. Enriquez (ed.) Sikolohiyang Pilipino: Mga Piliping Papel (Serye ng mga Papel sa Pagkataong Pilipino), Paper No. 1 (August), 2-10. (Also as The Psychology of the Filipino People. Far Eastern Economic Review (1956), 21(25), 811-823.)

Nida R. Almonte & Abraham B. Velasco (1977) Ang Konseptong ng Disiplina ng mga Pilipino: Isang Panimulang Pag-aaral. In V.G. Enriquez (ed.) Sikolohiyang Pilipino: Mga Piliping Papel (Serye ng mga Papel sa Pagkataong Pilipino), Paper No. 3 (October), 23-47.

The Anatomy of Philippine Psychology: Rethinking Filipino Psychology in UST

The Anatomy of Philippine Psychology.
UNITAS, 38(4), December, 1965.

Jose A. Samson, Is there a Filipino Psychology? 477-487

Jesus Merino, O.P, Oriental Traits and the psychology of the Filipinos. 488-497

Vicente Rosales, Influence of Spanish Culture of the Filipinos. 498-504

Fernando Hofile(n)a, The Child in the Fil-American Setting. 505-510

Emmanuel Vit. Samson, Typologies and the Filipino Temperament. 511-516

Josefa G. Estrada, Inferiority Complex--A Filipino Temperament? 517-523

Jose A. Samson, Peculiar Patterns of Behavior in Filipino Setting. 524-536

Jesus Merino, O.P., Religiosity and NAtionalism among the Filipinos. 537-545

Adoracion Ajorna, The Ningas Kugon and the Ma(n)ana Habit. 546-551

Josefa G. Estrada, The Hospitality and Loyalty of the FIlipinos. 552-558

Eliseo Vibar, Understanding the Filipino Character and the Prevention of Crime. 559-569

Emmanuel Vit. Samson, Modern Changes in Behavior Patterns and Future Directions in the Filipino Psychology. 57-575

Note: On December 1965, the UNITAS, a quarterly scholar review of the University of Santo Tomas published a collection of papers on psychology that are presently an embodiment of literature in both Philippine Psychology and Filipino Psychology. The quarterly journal is consisted of 13 articles, three reports, one book review, index of volume 38 and a sworn statement. The total of pages is from 477-636, excluding the table of contents.

(n)--refers to hyphenated n.

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The Anatomy of Philippine Psychology: Rethinking Filipino Psychology in UST.

(RESEARCH STATUS: TENTAIVE, WORKING PAPER. Do not cite)

ABSTRACT

Even before there was a Philippine Psychology and Sikolohiyang Pilipino, scholars in UST have started teaching and practicing psychology. The aim of this paper is to review the papers that were published in the UNITAS (see above)almost four decades that have passed. These papers in psychology have contributed in the development of Philippine Psychology and Sikolohiyang Pilipino literature. The paper also accounts a brief history of Psychology and the establishment, curricula and trends of teaching Filipino Psychology at the University of Santo Tomas. Some insights and recommendations are given for further strengthening the teaching of Filipino Psychology in UST.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction.
2. History of Psychology in University of Santo Tomas
a. Founders and establishment of the Department of Psychology
b. Studies conducted in UST concerning Psychology (Philippine Psychology and Sikolohiyang Pilipino).
3. The Anatomy of Philippine Psychology: A Review
4. Sikolohiyang Pilipino: General Characteristics
a. Introduction of concepts, methodologies and applications.
b. Teachers, curriculum, and studies in SP in UST.
4. Trends and Developments of Psychology in UST.
5. Insights and Recommendations
a. Advantages and Liitations in Teaching Filipino Psychology
b. Implications of Teaching Filipino Psychology


Copyright (C) John Hermes C. Untalan, June 23, 2004 (Wednesday), 2:05p.m.

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References

Jose A. Samson (1965) A Note on the Psycho-Physiology of the Emtoions. UNITAS, 38(1), 155-160.

Jose A. Samson (1965) Schizophrenia among Filipino Children. UNITAS, 38(2), 298-310.

Lucila Ortiz-Bance (2001) The Development of an Assessment Tool for Work Values Inventory for Teachers (WVIT). UNITAS, (4), .

References Concerning Indigenous Psychologies

Adair, J.G., Puhan, B.N., & Vohra, N. (1993) Indigenization of Psychology: Empirical Assessment of Progress in Indian Reserach. International Journal of Psychology, 28(2), 149-169.

Adair, J.G. (1996) The Indigenous Psychology Bandwagon: Cautions and Considerations. In J. Pandey, D. Sinha, & D.P.S. Bhawuk (Eds.) Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 50-58). New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.

Berry, J.W. & Kim, U. (1993) The Way Ahead: From Indigenous Psychology to a Universal Psychology. In U. Kim & J. W. Berry (Eds.) Indigenous Psychologies: Research and Experience in Cultural Context ( Vol. 17, Cross-Cultural Reserach and Methodology Series; pp.277-280). New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.

Berry, J.W., Poortinga, Y.H., Segall, M.H., Dasen, P.R. (1992) Cross-cultural psychology: Research and applications. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Church, A.T. (1987) Personality Research in a Non-Western Culture: The Philippines. Psychological Bulletin, 102(2), 272-292.

Diaz-Guerrero, R. (1993) Mexican Ethnopsychology. In U. Kim & J. W. Berry (Eds.) Indigenous Psychologies: Research and Experience in Cultural Context ( Vol. 17, Cross-Cultural Reserach and Methodology Series; pp. 44-55). New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.

Gabrenya, W. K., Jr. (2004, in press). A sociology of science approach to understanding indigenous psychologies. In B. N. Setiadi, W. J. Lonner, A. Supratiknya, & Y. H. Poortinga (Eds.), Ongoing Themes in Psychology and Culture.

Gergen, K.J., Gulerce, A., Lock, A., & Misra, G. (1996) Psychological Science in Cultural Context. American Psychologist, 51, 496-503.

Greenfield, P.M. (1996) Culture as Process: Empirical Methods for Cultural Psychology. In J.W. Berry, Y.H. Poortinga, & J. Pandey (Eds.) Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 301-346). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Ho, D.Y.F. (1998) Indigenous Psychologies: Asian Perspectives. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 29(1), 88-103.

Ho, D.Y.F. (1998) Interpersonal Relationship and Relationship Dominance: An Analysis Based on Methodological Relationalism. Asian Journal of Social Psychiology, 1(1), 1-16.

Ho, D.Y.F., Peng, S.Q., Lai, A.C., & Chan, S.F.F. (2001) Indigenization and Beyond: Methodological Relationalism in the study of Personality across Cultural Traditions. Journal of Personality, 69(6), 925-953.

Kim, U. (1999) After the "crisis" in social psychology: The development of the transactional model of science. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2(1), 1-19.

Kim, U., Park, Y.S., Park, D. (2000) The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Psychology: The Role of the Indigenous Psychology. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 31(1), 63-75.

Lonner, W.J., & Adamopoulos, J. (1996) Culture as Antecedent to Behavior. In J.W. Berry, Y.H. Poortinga, & J. Pandey (Eds.) Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 43-84). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Miller, J.G. (1996) Theoretical Issues in Cultural Psychology. In J.W. Berry, Y.H. Poortinga, & J. Pandey (Eds.) Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 85-128). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Poortinga, Y.H. (1996) Towards Convergence? In J.W. Berry, Y.H. Poortinga, & J. Pandey (Eds.) Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 347-388). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Poortinga, Y.H. (1996) Indigenous Psychology: Scientific Ethnocentrism in a New Guise? In J. Pandey, D. Sinha, & D.P.S. Bhawuk (Eds.) Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 59-71). New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.

Shams, M. (2000) Power, regulation and pressure: Issues in the study of indigenous psyhcologies. Imperium, I, December 2000.

Sinha, D. (1993) Indigenization of Psychology in India and Its Relevance. In U. Kim & J. W. Berry (Eds.) Indigenous Psychologies: Research and Experience in Cultural Context ( Vol. 17, Cross-Cultural Reserach and Methodology Series; pp. 30-43). New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.

Sinha, D. (1996) Indigenizing Psychology. In J.W. Berry, Y.H. Poortinga, & J. Pandey (Eds.) Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 129-170). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.