The Liberation Psychology perspective emerged as an integration of academic Psychology with the Liberation Theology movement of Latin American Catholicism. As an indigenous Latin American movement, it is one of the few theoretical perspectives in Psychological Science to emerge outside European and American settings. The defining purpose of a Liberation Psychology perspective is to draw upon everyday understandings of oppressed people (a version of the Liberation Theology principle "preferential option for the poor") for two related tasks: (1) to reveal the ideological character of everyday realities and (2) to suggest alternative models of identification that promote liberation.