Future of Prejudice

Henri Parens is professor of psychiatry at the Jefferson Medical College, and training and supervising analyst at the psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including two with Jason Aronson: Does God Help: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Religious Belief, Real and Imaginary Fathers: Development, Transference and Healing, The Development of Aggression in Early Childhood, and Aggression in Our Children: Coping with It Constructively. Afaf Mahfouz, Ph.D., chairs the International Psychoanalytic Association Committee on the United Nations, a group dedicated to bringing psychoanalysis to the United Nations. Stuart W. Twemlow, MD is medical director of the Hope Program, director of the Peaceful Schools and Communities Project of The Child and Family Program, The Menninger Clinic; professor of psychiatry of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; and faculty member of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute. David E. Scharff, M. D., co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University, and a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

The content of the chapters is interesting and filled with acute insights....A nice book...full of interesting information.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Prejudice: Conceptual and Universal DynamicsChapter 3 From Unmentalized Xenophobia to Messianic Sadism: Some Reflections on the Phenomenology of PrejudiceChapter 4 Toward Understanding Prejudice - Benign and MalignantChapter 5 Terrorism, Fundamentalism and Nihilism: Analyzing the Dilemmas of ModernityPart 6 Developmental Aspects of PrejudiceChapter 7 The Development of Prejudice: An Attachment Theory Hypothesis Explaining Its UbiquityChapter 8 Roots of Prejudice: Findings from Observational ResearchChapter 9 Family Development and the Origin of PrejudiceChapter 10 The Roots of Prejudice in Family LifePart 11 Malignant Prejudice: Specific KindsChapter 12 Anti-Black Racism and the Conception of WhitenessChapter 13 Contemporary Anti-Semitism: Variations on an Ancient ThemeChapter 14 Religious Prejudice and the Formation of Mormon and Non-Mormon Selves in Utah: A View from Phenomenological AnthropologyChapter 15 Panel - Palestinian-Israeli ConflictChapter 16 Prejudice Between Palestinians and IsraelisChapter 17 Belief Systems, Identity and the Function of Prejudice in Israeli PoliticsPart 18 Prejudice: Studies and Prevention StrategiesChapter 19 A Brief History of Prejudice StudiesChapter 20 The Prejudices of Everyday Life with Observations from Field TrialsChapter 21 Germans and Israeli Jews: Hidden Emotional DynamicsChapter 22 Malignant Prejudice - Guidelines toward Its Prevention