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More recently, Sullaway and Dunbar used a prejudice rating scale to assess and describe levels of prejudice.3 They found associations between highly prejudiced people and other indicators of psychopathology. The subtype at the extreme end of their scale is a paranoid/delusional prejudice disorder.
Using the DSM's structure of diagnostic criteria for delusional disorder,4(p329) I suggest the following subtype:
Prejudice type: A delusion whose theme is that a group of individuals, who share a defining characteristic, in one's environment have a particular and unusual significance. These delusions are usually of a negative or pejorative nature, but also may be grandiose in content. When these delusions are extreme, the person may act out by attempting to harm, and even murder, members of the despised group(s). |
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By: steve_ropa
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| As a clinical psychiatrist, I have treated several patients who projected their own unacceptable behavior and fears onto ethnic minorities, scapegoating them for society's problems. Their strong racist feelings, which were tied to fixed belief systems impervious to reality checks, were symptoms of serious mental dysfunction. When these patients became more aware of their own problems, they grew less paranoid—and less prejudiced. |
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| Persons afflicted with such psychopathology represent an immediate danger to themselves and others. Clinicians need guidelines for recognizing delusional racism in all its forms so that they can provide appropriate treatment. Otherwise, extreme delusional racists will continue to fall through the cracks of the mental health system, and we can expect more of them to explode and act out their deadly delusions. |
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| "represent an immediate danger to themselves and others." |
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By: steve_ropa
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| Most would agree that racism—the practice of racial discrimination, segregation, persecution, and domination on the basis of feelings and ideas of racial superiority—is mainly a product of learned behavior. After all, research informs us that a majority of explicitly racist persons do not have any psychopathology. However, isn't it possible for racism to also be a symptom of a psychiatric disorder? For example, we know that patients with a paranoid disorder project their unacceptable feelings and ideas onto other people and groups. So isn't it possible for these patients to project their unacceptable feelings and ideas onto different racial or ethnic groups? Additionally, is it possible that an individual exposed to trauma that was inflicted on him or her by a person from a different racial or ethic group might harbor racist attitudes toward that group? Furthermore, is it possible that persons with certain personality disorders—for example, paranoid or narcissistic personality disorder might be more predisposed to racism than those who do not? These are all legitimate scientific questions that we as psychiatrists should be willing to test and answer. |
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By: steve_ropa
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| "Additionally, is it possible that an individual exposed to trauma that was inflicted on him or her by a person from a different racial or ethic group might harbor racist attitudes toward that group?" |
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By: saturday4th
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is it possible that an individual exposed to trauma
By trauma I suppose in your case that would involve getting a real job ? |
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By: steve_ropa
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****By trauma I suppose in your case that would involve getting a real job ?****
lamea r s e |
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By: dallone.ranger
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Crikey, there are a heck of a lot of, 'is it possible', in all that.
Shouldn't Alvin F Poussaint, Professor of psychiatry, already know before he starts talking about these things.
If I were you Ropes I'd look for another shrink. Someone who already knows the answers. Good luck son. |
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By: dallone.ranger
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Ropes, you highlighted the following;
"Additionally, is it possible that an individual exposed to trauma that was inflicted on him or her by a person from a different racial or ethic group might harbor racist attitudes toward that group?"
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I have another supposition which is just as credible.
Is it possible that an individual who was exposed to derision, contempt, mockery, and/or ridicule, (like yourself) which was inflicted on him by persons of his own race over a period of time, might harbor racist attitudes toward that group? And furthermore, move as far away from them as possible so that he can live amongst people who have little knowledge of said race, and therefore can vent his spleen and spread his hatred on unknowing ears.
Sound familiar? I'll bet it does, |
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By: steve_ropa
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Is Racism a Mental Illness?
Yes
It can be a delusional symptom of psychotic disorders
Alvin F Poussaint, Professor of psychiatry
To continue perceiving extreme racism as normative and not pathologic is to lend it legitimacy. Clearly, anyone who scapegoats a whole group of people and seeks to eliminate them to resolve his or her internal conflicts meets criteria for a delusional disorder, a major psychiatric illness. |
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By: dallone.ranger
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I have another supposition which is just as credible.
Is it possible that an individual who was exposed to derision, contempt, mockery, and/or ridicule, (like yourself) which was inflicted on him by persons of his own race over a period of time, might harbor racist attitudes toward that group? And furthermore, move as far away from them as possible so that he can live amongst people who have little knowledge of said race, and therefore can vent his spleen and spread his hatred on unknowing ears.
Sound familiar? I'll bet it does, |
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By: steve_ropa
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Is Racism a Mental Illness?
Yes
It can be a delusional symptom of psychotic disorders
Alvin F Poussaint, Professor of psychiatry
To continue perceiving extreme racism as normative and not pathologic is to lend it legitimacy. Clearly, anyone who scapegoats a whole group of people and seeks to eliminate them to resolve his or her internal conflicts meets criteria for a delusional disorder, a major psychiatric illness. |
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By: dallone.ranger
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Is this how self proclaimed 'legends' react to their downfall where you live?
That's alright son, we understand. |
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By: steve_ropa
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Is Racism a Mental Illness?
Yes
It can be a delusional symptom of psychotic disorders
Alvin F Poussaint, Professor of psychiatry
To continue perceiving extreme racism as normative and not pathologic is to lend it legitimacy. Clearly, anyone who scapegoats a whole group of people and seeks to eliminate them to resolve his or her internal conflicts meets criteria for a delusional disorder, a major psychiatric illness. |
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The Coniston massacre, which took place in 1928 on Coniston cattle station, Northern Territory, Australia, was the last known massacre of Indigenous Australians. People of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Kaytetye groups were killed. The massacre occurred in revenge for the death of dingo hunter, Frederick Brooks, supposedly killed by Aborigines in August 1928 at a place now known as Yukurru, (also Brooks Soak).
Official records at the time stated that thirty-one people were killed. A member of the punitive party for the first few days and the then owner of Coniston station (Mr Randall Stafford) estimated that at least twice that number were killed. Some historians estimate that at least sixty Aboriginal men, women and children were killed; others estimate as many as 110 were killed. |
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