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Is There a Specific Psychosocial Consciousness That Frames Development for Border Women? - Seeks Further Understanding of the Notion of La Cultura Cura Because While University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository American Studies ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1-31-2013 The Borderpsychosocial Development Project: Is There a Specific syP chosocial Consciousness that Frames Development for Border Women? Maria Gloria Munguia Wellman Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds Part of the American Studies Commons Recommended Citation Munguia Wellman, Maria Gloria. "The Borderpsychosocial Development Project: Is There a Specific sP ychosocial Consciousness that Frames Development for Border Women?." (2013). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/32 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in American Studies ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. María Gloria Munguía Candidate American Studies Department This dissertation is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication: Approved by the Dissertation Committee: A. Gabriel Meléndez, Chairperson Bárbara Reyes Rebecca Schreiber Michael Trujillo THE BORDERPSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: IS THERE A SPECIFIC PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS THAT FRAMES DEVELOPMENT FOR BORDER WOMEN? By María Gloria Munguía A.A., Houston Community College, Houston, Texas, 1992 B.A., Psychology, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, 1995 M.S.W., Washington University in St. Louis, 1998 DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy American Studies The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico December 2012 iii ©2012, María Gloria Munguía iv Dedication For my mother and father, who brought me into this world, and into the borderlands, and did the best they could to show me how to survive. For my daughter, who I brought into this world, and into a different borderlands, and with whom I did the best I could to show her how to survive and succeed. For my two grandsons whom we will all teach how to survive, succeed, and thrive. Los amo. v Acknowledgements Thank you to all those who helped and supported me in this effort from the University of New Mexico. Muchas gracias to mija y su familia in califas, mi familia en tejas, mi esposo, mis hermanas y communidad aquí en burque, y a todos los demas – ustedes saben quien son – si no hoy, mañana. vi THE BORDERPSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: IS THERE A SPECIFIC PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS THAT FRAMES DEVELOPMENT FOR BORDER WOMEN? By MARÍA GLORIA MUNGUÍA A.A., Houston Community College, Houston, Texas, 1992 B.A., Psychology, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, 1995 M.S.W., Washington University in St. Louis, 1998 Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico, 2012 ABSTRACT Often placed at the center of psychotherapeutic training rhetoric are the notions of cultural sophistication, competency, and responsiveness; however, these notions are often pushed to the margins of practice. This qualitative and interdisciplinary community project explores an important strand of psychosocial development that has always already existed, but had yet to be named. Psychosocial consciousness develops, through time, as a natural human response to our day-to-day experiences and encounters. These experiences and encounters form, reinforce, and perpetuate systems of understanding of self and others which profoundly impact our experience in the world. The exploration of the psychosocial development of a specific cohort of mujeres from the USA-Mexico border is a means toward the expansion of the understanding of psychosocial development of an underrepresented vii strand of mujeres and leads to the imagining of a culturally relevant and responsive intervention. This dissertation is designed to engage with the ongoing exploration of theories of identity, culture, and community; this as a means of contributing to border and borderland discourse in multiple fields of study, research, pedagogy, and praxis. This project braids together three strands of discourse. First, the voices that emerge from a process of a historicized and sequential connection of literature drawn selectively from multiple fields of study in order to build the foundation, shape the framework, and contextualize the notion of borderpsychosocial development. Second, my cuento, reflexive stories that emerged from my personal, professional, and academic experiences. Third, the cuentos of las seis mujeres del valle who provide a glimpse into their experiences of living on the border. Interviewed were six mujeres of Mexican heritage between ages fifty and sixty-five who live in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas near the USA-Mexico border. Written and video recording methods are used to gather contextual- and cuento-data about their specific psychosocial experience with religion, traditional medicine, language, and education from childhood through adulthood that constitutes their psychosocial development on the border. Selected findings provide a glimpse into border-based experiences, the dilemmas that result, demonstrate the value of centering the marginalized experience and theorizing of psychosocial experience, and imagine a clinical intervention. viii Table of Contents List of Figures ................................................................................................................. xiv Chapter One ¿Qué? ¿Por Qué? Y ¿Cómo? ........................................................................ 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 1 Yo Soy/Situating Myself ................................................................................................ 2 A Borderpsychosocial Momento ................................................................................... 3 Significance ................................................................................................................... 7 Methodology ............................................................................................................... 10 Contextualizing Method ............................................................................................. 12 Epistemology ............................................................................................................... 13 Gathering Evidence ..................................................................................................... 15 Las Mujeres del Valle .................................................................................................. 20 Alma ............................................................................................................. 21 Carmen ............................................................................................................ 22 Marta ............................................................................................................. 23 Sofia ............................................................................................................. 24 Sylvia ............................................................................................................. 25 Teresa ............................................................................................................. 26 Key Terms .................................................................................................................... 27 Key Questions ............................................................................................................. 30 Overview ..................................................................................................................... 31 Intención ..................................................................................................................... 35 ix Chapter Two Salones de Sabiduría – Building Bridges .................................................... 37 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 37 Cruzando Puentes ....................................................................................................... 38 Feminist Theorizing by Women of Color .................................................................... 54 Gloria Anzaldúa ........................................................................................................... 58 Mestiza Consciousness ............................................................................................... 60 Nepantla ...................................................................................................................... 61 Coatlicue State ............................................................................................................ 61 La Facultad .................................................................................................................. 63 Coyolxauhqui State ..................................................................................................... 64 Shadow Beast .............................................................................................................. 65 Cultural Studies - La Cultura Cura y Más ................................................................... 67 Películas .......................................................................................................... 69 Televisión ........................................................................................................
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