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Stephen Frosh has assembled a powerful and important book analysing racism. His purpose is not academic but practical; an attempt to provide a psychological and social analysis that can be an effective tool in the essential battle against racism. In his words:
[This book] is psychosocial arguing that it is artificial to separate psychological from social processes, and that they have to be understood as entwined with one another, so that the deep feelings which people often take to be aspects of their ‘identities’ are connected in innumerable ways with the social and cultural forces out of which they arise. It is also a polemical book, based on the belief that there is nothing more dangerous in contemporary society than racism, and that studies of racist ideas and actions - here in the specific guise of anti-Semitism - continue to be necessary as part of the essential task of combating racism wherever it is found. (p. 5)
Frosh uses the Nazi persecution of psychoanalysis as a ‘Jewish Science’ as an extended case naturally of relevance to psychotherapists. He is particularly concerned to show how the Nazi attack was dealt with by German