Boon-Ooi Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 630661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boon-Ooi Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boon-Ooi |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3193-8766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonizing mental health practice through traditional healing frameworks
Decolonial and liberation psychology aims to understand and address the social and epistemic injustices in our mental health systems, practices, and research agenda. To advance this goal, we advocate for deeper engagement with traditional healing systems practiced by various Indigenous Peoples and cultural groups around the world. In this article, we consider examples of Indigenous healing from Canada, China, Singapore, and the United States, to …
Teaching & Learning Guide for
The field of social and personality psychology grapples with a global “replication crisis”—difficulties in the reproduction of comparable findings to original studies (Arnett 2008; Atherton et al. 2021; Power et al. 2023). This is attributed in part to a lack of diversity in sampling, with a majority of existing studies deriving findings from Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) populations (Henrich et al. 2010; Schiavone a…
Beyond the Lab—Proposing an Indigenous Psychologies Research Paradigm
To align with the goal of this section, we propose an ontological turn to the psychology research paradigm that extends beyond mainstream methodology. Drawing on the existing literature of indigenous psychology (IP) and two qualitative studies from Singapore and Malaysia, we critically examine the differences of epistemology and methodology between mainstream approaches in Western psychology and the IP approach to the culturally different other. …
A meeting report from Seaip ‐2023
This report introduces the development of the Southeast Asian Indigenous Psychology (SEAIP) network and the outcomes of the SEAIP‐2023 conference. First, we summarize four priorities of SEAIP research that evolved throughout the years; next, we propose four action plans in translating our research into practice. Our report aims to inspire Asian psychologists, especially the younger generation of scholars, to join and contribute to the development…
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health
Journeying Through Different Mythic Worlds
The global mental health movement (GMHM) seeks to close the treatment gap in low- and middle-income countries including those in Southeast Asia. However, the GMHM has been criticized for its overemphasis on a Eurocentric approach to mental health care, ignoring the diversity of knowledge and resources in local communities. Given the pluralistic health care systems in most Southeast Asian countries, people may utilize both Indigenous healing and W…
Dang-Ki healing
This article explores the processes of transformation of the self in dang-ki healing, a form of Chinese spirit mediumship in Singapore, drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research. In dang-ki healing, it is believed that a deity possesses a human, who is called a dang-ki, to help clients (i.e., devotees). Through the dang-ki, clients can interact with powerful deities in ways that help them feel hopeful and supported. The dang-kis them…
Transformation in Dang-ki Healing
Therapeutic Processes and Perceived Helpfulness of Dang-Ki (Chinese Shamanism) from the Symbolic Healing Perspective
Dang-Ki healing
This article explores the processes of transformation of the self in dang-ki healing, a form of Chinese spirit mediumship in Singapore, drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research. In dang-ki healing, it is believed that a deity possesses a human, who is called a dang-ki, to help clients (i.e., devotees). Through the dang-ki, clients can interact with powerful deities in ways that help them feel hopeful and supported. The dang-kis them…
Beyond the Lab—Proposing an Indigenous Psychologies Research Paradigm
To align with the goal of this section, we propose an ontological turn to the psychology research paradigm that extends beyond mainstream methodology. Drawing on the existing literature of indigenous psychology (IP) and two qualitative studies from Singapore and Malaysia, we critically examine the differences of epistemology and methodology between mainstream approaches in Western psychology and the IP approach to the culturally different other. …
Therapeutic Processes and Perceived Helpfulness of Dang-Ki (Chinese Shamanism) from the Symbolic Healing Perspective
Transformation in Dang-ki Healing
Dang-Ki healing
This article explores the processes of transformation of the self in dang-ki healing, a form of Chinese spirit mediumship in Singapore, drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research. In dang-ki healing, it is believed that a deity possesses a human, who is called a dang-ki, to help clients (i.e., devotees). Through the dang-ki, clients can interact with powerful deities in ways that help them feel hopeful and supported. The dang-kis them…
Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health
Journeying Through Different Mythic Worlds
The global mental health movement (GMHM) seeks to close the treatment gap in low- and middle-income countries including those in Southeast Asia. However, the GMHM has been criticized for its overemphasis on a Eurocentric approach to mental health care, ignoring the diversity of knowledge and resources in local communities. Given the pluralistic health care systems in most Southeast Asian countries, people may utilize both Indigenous healing and W…
A meeting report from Seaip ‐2023
This report introduces the development of the Southeast Asian Indigenous Psychology (SEAIP) network and the outcomes of the SEAIP‐2023 conference. First, we summarize four priorities of SEAIP research that evolved throughout the years; next, we propose four action plans in translating our research into practice. Our report aims to inspire Asian psychologists, especially the younger generation of scholars, to join and contribute to the development…
Decolonizing mental health practice through traditional healing frameworks
Decolonial and liberation psychology aims to understand and address the social and epistemic injustices in our mental health systems, practices, and research agenda. To advance this goal, we advocate for deeper engagement with traditional healing systems practiced by various Indigenous Peoples and cultural groups around the world. In this article, we consider examples of Indigenous healing from Canada, China, Singapore, and the United States, to …
Teaching & Learning Guide for
The field of social and personality psychology grapples with a global “replication crisis”—difficulties in the reproduction of comparable findings to original studies (Arnett 2008; Atherton et al. 2021; Power et al. 2023). This is attributed in part to a lack of diversity in sampling, with a majority of existing studies deriving findings from Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) populations (Henrich et al. 2010; Schiavone a…
Beyond the Lab—Proposing an Indigenous Psychologies Research Paradigm
To align with the goal of this section, we propose an ontological turn to the psychology research paradigm that extends beyond mainstream methodology. Drawing on the existing literature of indigenous psychology (IP) and two qualitative studies from Singapore and Malaysia, we critically examine the differences of epistemology and methodology between mainstream approaches in Western psychology and the IP approach to the culturally different other. …
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Community Health and Development (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)