The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychonalytic Lens (Relational Perspectives Book Series, Vol 3)

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Summary: Highly recommended for psychology students
Review: The Analyst In The Inner City: Race, Class, And Culture Through A Psychoanalytic Lens by Neil Altman (faculty member and supervisor at the New York University Post-doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis) is an effort to connect racial, cultural, and social-class divisions to the splits that take root in an individual's sense of self. A clearly presented and scholarly analysis of social and clinical theory, The Analyst In The Inner City is a cold, hard look at how people compartmentalize groups of other people who are different, apply stereotypes, and project unwanted or rejected qualities in themselves onto the "foreign", "other", or "not-me" groups. Highly recommended for psychology students and practitioners with a fascinating, disturbing, and intense study of the mind-games human beings play on themselves without ever knowing it.