ABSTRACT
A revivified psychology could emerge from comparative research and the cross-fertilisation between Western techniques and methodology with the individual and collective problems of the Third World. An exclusively Third World psychology would cut off a vast segment of humanity and seal it into its own world, which is as racist in its implications as the most overtly Eurocentred psychology. The Third World contribution will reform psychology to include as central topics the more spiritual and dynamic aspects. The contribution of the Third World is to compel psychology to apply its theories and techniques to the universal phenomena of change. Western psychology works within a traditional pattern of seeking the determinants of behaviour - patterns of association between events that suggest patterns of cause and effect. The elements of a relevant psychology cohere about the emotional, developmental and irrational-unconscious social-psychological aspects of psychology that are now largely ignored.
