African American Population About The Economic Status Eduardo R. Polo

MESTER, VOLUME 46, ISSUE 3, 2017, UCLA, USA African American Population: About the economic Status Eduardo R. Polo Abstract The author examines various perspectives on racial and ethnic identity and proposes a model of thinking about identity aimed at... More

MESTER, VOLUME 46, ISSUE 3, 2017, UCLA, USA African American Population: About the economic Status Eduardo R. Polo Abstract The author examines various perspectives on racial and ethnic identity and proposes a model of thinking about identity aimed at capturing both the oppressive and facilitating nature of iden- tity.To further elaborate the dual nature of identity, he discuss- es how the inequalities of the social world, and the ideologies that sustain them, produce narcissistic wounds that are con- sciously and unconsciously put to work by both the patient and the therapist. Several of these are presented in a summary of the author's work with an Asian-American patient during which he began to recognize unconscious racial and cultural prejudices in the way he had considered certain "basic princi- ples" of psychoanalytic practice: dependence, independence, happiness and love. Keywords: Economic status, American population, African population Received 15.06.2017 Accepted 18.09.2017 Au Less