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Titolo: Is Extreme Racism a Mental Illness? Yes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071634/
 
 
West J Med. 2002 Jan; 176(1): 4.
PMCID: PMC1071634
 
Is Extreme Racism a Mental Illness? Yes
It can be a delusional symptom of psychotic disorders
 
Alvin F Poussaint, Professor of psychiatry
 
The American Psychiatric Association has never officially recognized 
extreme racism (as opposed to ordinary prejudice) as a mental health 
problem, although the issue was raised more than 30 years ago. After 
several racist killings in the civil rights era, a group of black 
psychiatrists sought to have extreme bigotry classified as a mental 
disorder. The association's officials rejected the recommendation, 
arguing that because so many Americans are racist, even extreme racism 
in this country is normative—a cultural problem rather than an 
indication of psychopathology.
 
The psychiatric profession's primary index for diagnosing psychiatric 
symptoms, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 
(DSM), does not include racism, prejudice, or bigotry in its text or 
index.1 Therefore, there is currently no support for including extreme 
racism under any diagnostic category. This leads psychiatrists to think 
that it cannot and should not be treated in their patients.
 
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.
 
Extreme racists' violence should be considered in the context of 
behavior described by Allport in The Nature of Prejudice. Allport's 
5-point scale categorizes increasingly dangerous acts. It begins with 
verbal expression of antagonism, progresses to avoidance of members of 
disliked groups, then to active discrimination against them, to physical 
attack, and finally to extermination (lynchings, massacres, genocide). 
That fifth point on the scale, the acting out of extermination 
fantasies, is readily classifiable as delusional behavior.
 
More recently, Sullaway and Dunbar used a prejudice rating scale to 
assess and describe levels of prejudice. 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).
 
Extreme racist delusions can also occur as a major symptom in other 
psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Persons 
suffering delusions usually have serious social dysfunction that impairs 
their ability to work with others and maintain employment.
 
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.
 
It is time for the American Psychiatric Association to designate extreme 
racism as a mental health problem by recognizing it as a delusional 
psychotic symptom. 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.
-- 
Namib
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Die Arbeiter haben kein Vaterland (Karl Marx)

 
 
Tu sei la prima conferma delle diagnosi dello psichiatra Alvin F. Poussaint. 
A quando le altre conferme? :-)
 
brif

 Die Arbeiter haben kein Vaterland (Karl Marx)
 
Chissa' perche' ti chiamano nazib!
 

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Al contrario di quello che pensa lo SCURO Poussaint, anche i neri
sono razzisti e il caso degli Zebra murders lo dimostra.
 

 Is Extreme Racism
 
Una tautologia.
 
Estremo significa oltre il limite, che sta fuori.

Comprati un vocabolario. Inoltre se fosse come dici (facendo finta che estremo significhi oltre), non deduco dalla costruzione della frase la verità della proposizione: uno estremamente biondo non è pazzo. Uno estremamente liberale non è pazzo. Eccetera.
 
Quindi, non sai il significato di estremo e neppure di tautologia, però te ne riempi la bocca. Sei altresì il più grande stupido mai visto qui dentro.

 uno estremamente biondo non è pazzo. 
 
lol :-) 
 
la tua foga di colpire x05 e il tuo astio pazzesco ti fa perdere la
lucidità
 
impressionante
 
credo che questo aspetto del tuo carattere devi pagarlo molto caro
nella vita reale
 
 


 
Nazib, spiegaci a quale categoria appartiene questo caso di 
razzismo estremo di questi negri criminali.
 
 
-- 
Prima ti ignorano. Poi ti deridono. Poi ti combattono. Poi vinci. [Gandhi]
 

 razzismo estremo di questi negri criminali.
 
Nemmeno le malattie mentali guardano al colore della pelle: quegli 
assassini erano ritardati e malati proprio come te. Ma erano anche 
criminali, mentre tu (almeno per quel che ne so) non lo sei. Qual è il 
problema, vice-Rita?
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 Nemmeno le malattie mentali
 
che, ricordiamolo, riguardano comportamenti estremi.
 
Implicitamente, l'articolo riconosce che il razzismo non e'
un disagio mentale finche' non diviene estremo e cioe' si
trasforma in una forma fobica e quindi riconosciuta nel dsm
IV.
 
Grazie zibib della conferma. Puoi congedarti.

 ha scritto:
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Infatti ci ha dimostrato che il razzismo, a certi livelli 
ragionevoli, è nella natura dell'uomo. Di tutti gli uomini, 
anche dei non-bianchi.
Ma anche nei gruppi etnici. Nessuno escluso.
Questo razzismo esiste in tutti i gruppi e, colpevolizzando 
opportumamente gli Europei, si riesce a invaderli 
facendosi trasportare e pagare.
 
Con l'aiuto di milioni di Nazib.
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 uomini,  anche dei non-bianchi.
 
Be', quando un correttore di bozze si addentra in pareri
medici e' probabile che faccia la figura del fesso.

 medici e' probabile che faccia la figura del fesso.
 
Incidentalmente a volte Namib dimostra di conoscere un po' di tagliacano 
correggiuto puro lui isso medesimo :-)