The Relational Origins of Prejudice

A Convergence of Psychoanalytic and Social Cognitive Perspectives

Ron B. Aviram (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

156 Seiten

2008
Jason Aronson Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7657-0506-8 (ISBN)

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Prejudice occurs between large groups and is experienced by members of those groups. Within the individual, these large group identifications are integrated into a dimension of the self-concept called collective identity. When collective identity is salient, people tend to perceive themselves and others as large group members, rather than as individuals. At those times, there is less differentiation between the self and the large group. We can say that the person is overidentified with the large group. Prejudice is an outcome of this overidentification. Our effort to understand the problem of prejudice requires that we examine both intrapsychic and environmental factors that may lead to an overidentification. In particular, a relational perspective directs our attention to the relationship between the individual and the large groups that make up his or her collective identity. This is called an ingroup, as opposed to outgroups (not part of one's collective identity). From this perspective, prejudice can be understood to be an aberration between the person and the ingroup, in which an overidentification occurs, rather than a problem between the person and an outgroup. How this occurs developmentally, intrapsychically, and environmentally and affects individuals is the subject of the book. Throughout the book, Aviram integrates empirical work from social psychology with theoretical and clinical examples from psychoanalysis in order to show the potential overlap of concepts used in both disciplines.

Ron B. Aviram is Instructor in Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Major Theories of Prejudice Chapter 3. The Group in the Person Chapter 4. Object Relations Theory of Prejudice Chapter 5. Attachment Theory and Prejudice Chapter 6. Society in the Consulting Room Chapter 7. The Relational Origins of Prejudice

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.2.2009
Reihe/Serie	The Library of Object Relations
Verlagsort	Northvale NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 239 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-7657-0506-0 / 0765705060
ISBN-13	978-0-7657-0506-8 / 9780765705068
Zustand	Neuware