Or, as this psychiatrist asks, a symptom of a psychiatric disorder?
For example, we know that patients with a paranoid disorder project their unacceptable feelings and ideas onto other people and groups. So isn’t it possible
for these patients to project their unacceptable feelings and ideas onto different racial or ethnic groups? Additionally, is it possible that an individual exposed to trauma that was inflicted on him or her by a person from a different racial or ethic group might harbor racist attitudes toward that group?Furthermore, is it possible that persons with certain personality disorders””for example, paranoid or narcissistic personality disorder””might be more predisposed to racism than those who do not?
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What a load of steaming manure. Shouldn’t this “shrink” be looking for the latest and greatest child molester, rapist or murderer to set free with a new and as of yet undiscovered criminal law diagnosis that absolves said criminal(s) of his/her (their) behavior.
Sure it’s a load of manure. But society has bought it totally. Mel Gibson has his little racist fit about the Jews, then medicalizes for the purpose of excusing the whole thing by checking into rehab.
Every celebrity trip to rehab now is nothing more than shrouding their behaviors as a medical issue then buying their way out by affording acomfortable spa that pretends to be a rehab clinic of some sort.
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