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Mental Status, Antisemitism and Antiforeign Prejudice

EUGENE B. BRODY, MD; ROBERT L. DERBYSHIRE, MA

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1963;9(6):619-628.

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"Prejudice" usually refers to a set of stereotyped, fixed, essentially irrational beliefs of a deprecatory or anxious nature held by members of a majority group about members of a minority. Such beliefs, which have much in common with delusional ideas may be plausibly regarded as reflecting attempts to deal with fear and insecurity about one's own status and capabilities. The minority which is seen as the source of some ill-defined threat against the majority functions as a convenient scapegoat for the latter.

It seems probable that the prejudices held by a member of a minority group will also reflect his defensive and need-gratifying processes. Ego-supporting, self-esteem building devices seem particularly important for the minority group. Among such devices are the adoption of fragments of the value systems of the larger power-holding society which surrounds him, but in which he does not participate completely. These include . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

The Psychiatric Institute, University of Maryland.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 20, 1963.

Some of the material included in this paper was presented under the title, "Personalidad y prejuicio en estudiantes universitarios negros Norteamericanos," Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Mar del Plata, Argentina: and "Anti-Semitic and Anti-Foreign Prejudice in American Negro College Students," Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Rio de Janeiro April, 1963.

The work upon which this paper is based received partial support from a fluid research grant from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry.

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