Tolerance of racism: A new construct that predicts failure to recognize and confront racism

Boutique egg donations: a new form of racism and patriarchy.

Exploring racism.

Whilst the concept of 'race' has no basis in genetics or biology, the dynamics of racism pervade all aspects of modern life--including the consulting room. In this paper the relationship between a white therapist and a black patient is explored through an unbidden thought and a verbal slip that occurred in the course of the therapy. The amplification and examination of these unwanted 'slips' ar...

Scientific Racism

Society has long idealized science as an indisputable vehicle of objective truth. This image has given scientists significant power, including the power to shape public opinion and even to affect the formulation of public policy. Throughout history, it cannot be said that science determines politics or that politics determined science, but often the two have been intertwined (Barkan, 5). But wh...

Racism, narcissism, and integrity.

Recently there has been much literature pertaining to the psychodynamics of narcissism and its relation to psychopathological and normal psychic functions. While these models of the mind are primarily aimed at understanding individual behavior in the therapeutic relationship, they are also useful in clarifying one's thinking about racism, which can be approached both from an individual and soci...

Racism and Social Darwinism

also there was a tendency to borrow heavily from the evolutionary theories of Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin (‘survival of the fittest’ is a vulgarisation of a more complex theory); especially, they drew on the idea of struggle and survival as the natural mechanisms for maintaining and improving the ‘stock’—i.e., genetic characteristics—of human beings. This was the origins of so-called ‘sc...