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Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination
This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of scapegoating and the resulting violence. Our time is characterised by a growth in expressed hostility and violence towards people who are perceived as ‘others’. Hatred towards and discrimination against minorities is on the rise. This book presents Read more
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Black Psychoanalysts Speak
To download this video for a fee or purchase a DVD, please contact blackpsychoanalystsspeak@gmail.com The analysts featured in this documentary contend that psychoanalysis has a long history as a progressive movement devoted to the common good. Psychoanalysis asks us to examine the processes of self deception that perpetuate both individual unhappiness and social Read more
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Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation
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Nationalism and the Body Politic: Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia
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Female subjects in black and white: Race, psychoanalysis, feminism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
About the Book This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role Read more
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The analyst in the inner city: Race, class, and culture through a psychoanalytic lens (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
About the Author Neil Altman, Ph.D., is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University, co-editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and co-author of Relational Child Psychotherapy. He is Past President of the Section on Social Responsibility of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, and serves on the Board of the International Read more
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 