Psychoanalytic perspectives on racial profiling.

A review on addiction from a psychoanalytic view, from fixation to emotion dysregulation

Addiction is a chronic and recurrent disease, which has always been the focus of various psychological perspectives. Psychoanalysis theories are fundamental in the modern treatment of addiction. As we have seen changes in the structure and process of methods during the time, they have changed in defining the concept of addiction. According to classic theories, addiction is an equivalent to mast...

Uncommon misery: modern psychoanalytic perspectives on infertility.

Combating Racial Health Disparities Through Medical Education: The Need for Anthropological and Genetic Perspectives in Medical Training.

Despite major public health initiatives, significant disparities persist among racially and ethnically defined groups in the prevalence of disease, access to medical care, quality of medical care, and health outcomes for common causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. It is critical that we develop new and creative strategies to address such inequities; mitigate the social, envir...

The Efficacy and Effect of Racial Profiling: A Mathematical Modeling Approach

Racial profiling – the use of race, ethnicity, or national origin by law enforcement officials to make judgments of criminal suspicion – is assessed in terms of its effect on targeted populations and law enforcement efficiency. A mathematical model, comparing multiple profiling and nonprofiling simulated scenarios, is employed. This analysis indicates that racial profiling exacerbates incarcera...

Reverse Deterrence in Racial Profiling

A controlled experiment tested the possibility that racial profiling—disproportionate scrutiny of a minority racial group by sanctioned authorities—would have a “reverse deterrent” effect on the illicit behavior of members of a nonprofiled majority group. Research participants given a task involving extremely difficult anagrams were given the opportunity to cheat. White participants randomly as...