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This thought-provoking treatise explores the essential functions that culture fulfills in human life in response to core psychological physiological and existential needs. It synthesizes diverse strands of empirical and theoretical knowledge to trace the development of culture as a source of morality self-esteem identity and meaning as well as a driver of domination and upheaval. Extended examples from past and ongoing hostilities also spotlight the resilience of culture in the aftermath of disruption and trauma and the possibility of reconciliation between conflicting cultures. The stimulating insights included here have far-reaching implications for psychology education intergroup relations politics and social policy.Included in the coverage: · Culture as shared meanings and interpretations. · Culture as an ontological prescription of how to be and how to live. · Cultural worldviews as immortality ideologies.· Culture and the need for a world of meaning in which to act.· Cultural trauma and indigenous people.· Constructing situations that optimize the potential for positive intercultural interaction.· Anxiety and the Human Condition.· Anxiety and Self Esteem.· Culture and Human Needs.A Psychology of Culture takes an uncommon tour of the human condition of interest to clinicians educators and practitioners students of culture and its role and effects in human life and students in nursing medicine anthropology social work family studies sociology counseling and psychology. It is especially suitable as a graduate text.

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