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A Psychology of Liberation and PeaceIntroduction

A Psychology of Liberation and Peace: Introduction [To theorist Sigmund Freud, the practice of skillfully “working through” the problems that adversely affected the lives of his patients constituted successful psychoanalytic treatment. Working through meant probing beneath the surface of the problems buried deeply in the patient’s unconscious mind because certain life realities had become too painful to bear. By surfacing the roots of the patient’s dysfunction and bringing them into conscious awareness, the analyst would accomplish the task of helping the patient cope constructively with these realities. I loosely borrow this concept of working through to propose that the problems that are deeply inherent in racismRacism cannot be fully resolved without working through the well-tilled roots of the violenceViolence that lies at its base.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Psychology of Liberation and PeaceIntroduction

Part of the Pan-African Psychologies Book Series
Thompson, Chalmer E. F.
Springer Journals — Mar 28, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
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978-3-030-13596-6
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1 –23
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-13597-3_1
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Abstract

[To theorist Sigmund Freud, the practice of skillfully “working through” the problems that adversely affected the lives of his patients constituted successful psychoanalytic treatment. Working through meant probing beneath the surface of the problems buried deeply in the patient’s unconscious mind because certain life realities had become too painful to bear. By surfacing the roots of the patient’s dysfunction and bringing them into conscious awareness, the analyst would accomplish the task of helping the patient cope constructively with these realities. I loosely borrow this concept of working through to propose that the problems that are deeply inherent in racismRacism cannot be fully resolved without working through the well-tilled roots of the violenceViolence that lies at its base.]

Published: Mar 28, 2019

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