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Commentary on Yasser ad‐Dab'bagh's “Islamophobia: Prejudice, the psychological skin of the self and large‐group dynamics”

Commentary on Yasser ad‐Dab'bagh's “Islamophobia: Prejudice, the psychological skin of the self... In “the land of the brave and the free”, where the land's Constitution mandates freedom of speech, of religion, of ethnicity, Ad‐Dab'bagh feels compelled to bring us a well conceptualized set of ideas in which he attempts to address some of the recent bewildering events that have challenged what this land stands for, and attempts to explain some of the consequences wrought by these recent events, hoping that this conceptualizations may shed some light on how these affect many among us. He is therewith adding to our understanding of human experience which, in turn may lead humans to solutions of the kind we analysts may offer society. And with this he is adding meaningfully to the collection of writings by psychoanalysts who are committed to addressing societal problems viewed through the lens of psychoanalysis. Yes, in doing so we must be aware of the limitations we face in applying psychoanalytic thought to understanding and giving explanation toward reducing social problems. And, of course, there are skeptics among us who are still convinced that psychoanalysis has no place in addressing large‐group or any societal disorders at all. I want to remind us that in 1933, Freud wrote that.… there is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

Commentary on Yasser ad‐Dab'bagh's “Islamophobia: Prejudice, the psychological skin of the self and large‐group dynamics”

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Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1742-3341
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10.1002/aps.1531
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In “the land of the brave and the free”, where the land's Constitution mandates freedom of speech, of religion, of ethnicity, Ad‐Dab'bagh feels compelled to bring us a well conceptualized set of ideas in which he attempts to address some of the recent bewildering events that have challenged what this land stands for, and attempts to explain some of the consequences wrought by these recent events, hoping that this conceptualizations may shed some light on how these affect many among us. He is therewith adding to our understanding of human experience which, in turn may lead humans to solutions of the kind we analysts may offer society. And with this he is adding meaningfully to the collection of writings by psychoanalysts who are committed to addressing societal problems viewed through the lens of psychoanalysis. Yes, in doing so we must be aware of the limitations we face in applying psychoanalytic thought to understanding and giving explanation toward reducing social problems. And, of course, there are skeptics among us who are still convinced that psychoanalysis has no place in addressing large‐group or any societal disorders at all. I want to remind us that in 1933, Freud wrote that.… there is

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies – Wiley

Published: Sep 1, 2017

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