ABSTRACT

The world we live in today has changed in many ways that calls for a better understanding of each other, which calls for focusing on research on indigenous psychologies, for without knowing the psychology of people in their indigenous contexts, we cannot quite understand their worldview and why they do what they do. Indigenous models can be developed by starting from cultural insight. India has a rich scholarly tradition and psychology can take advantage of this cultural wealth. We need to enrich our psychological understanding of humankind by building indigenous models. Indigenous psychology has tremendous potential to contribute to global psychology. This paper presents a methodology for developing models from indigenous ideas, and describes that this methodology is useful for building models, which can also serve as self-help frameworks for practitioners, thus contributing to the world of practice.