The future of prejudice : psychoanalysis and the prevention of prejudice / edited by Henri Parens ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parens, Henri, 1928-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prejudices.

Physical Description:

viii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007]

Summary:

Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice.

Contents:

Introduction / Shashi Tharoor

Prejudice : conceptual and universal dynamics. From unmentalized xenophobia to messianic sadism : some reflections on the phenomenology of prejudice / Salman Akhtar ; Toward understanding prejudice : benign and malignant / Henri Parens ; Terrorism, fundamentalism, and nihilism : analyzing the dilemmas of modernity / James Gilligan

Developmental aspects of prejudice. The development of prejudice : an attachment theory hypothesis explaining its ubiquity / Peter Fonagy and Anna Higgitt ; The roots of prejudice : findings from observational research / Henri Parens ; Family as the link between individual and the social origins of prejudice / David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff ; The roots of prejudice in family life and its political significance as discerned in a study of Slobodan Milosevic / Hans-Jürgen Wirth

Malignant prejudice : specific kinds. Anti-Black racism and the conception of whiteness / Forrest M. Hamer ; Contemporary anti-semitism : variations on an ancient theme / Ira Brenner ; Religious prejudice and the formation of Mormon and non-Mormon selves in Utah : a view from a phenomenological anthropology / David Clark Knowlton. Panel: Aspects of prejudice in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict : a brief introductory comment / Nadia Ramzy ; Prejudice between Palestinians and Israelis / George Awad ; Belief systems, identity, and the function of prejudice in Israeli politics / Carlo Strenger

Prejudice : studies and prevention strategies. A brief history of prejudice studies / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl ; The prejudices of everyday life, with observations from field trials / Stuart W. Twemlow and Frank Sacco ; Germans and Israeli Jews : hidden emotional dynamics / Hanni Mann-Shalvi ; Malignant prejudice : guidelines toward its prevention / Henri Parens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-311) and index.

ISBN:

9780765704603

0765704609

9780765704610

0765704617

OCLC:

70174892