ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on situations where tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people share the same or similar prejudice against another large group and newcomers. It presents clinical findings and theoretical explanations on mourning and its complications to develop an understanding of the psychology of immigrants and refugees. The chapter illustrates how we notice and explain the reasons for the appearance of prejudice in patients. It also illustrates the reasons for his prejudice against his newcomer analyst who spoke English with an accent. When an individual's prejudice is observed while he is on an analytic couch, it can be examined under a psychoanalytic microscope and factors leading to such an attitude can be observed clearly. There are individuals who exhibit sustained prejudices—for example, against their neighbors—that belong only to them. Most observable sustained prejudices are shared ones and they are against others who have a different ethnic, religious or ideological belief.
