Encountering Otherness: Anthropological, Developmental, and Clinical Dimensions

Psychoanalysis. He has a private practice in child and adult analysis and conducts Tavistock infant observation research in Palo Alto, California. Margaret Mead, the renowned American social anthro-pologist, is quoted by her biographer Jane Howard (1984) as saying that there are at least three ways in which one can gain insights into oneself and others. These three modalities include psychoanalysis (in which I would include analytical psychology), the study of other cultures through anthropologi-cal research, and the psychological study of infants. I think that Mead’s comments are interesting for us, especially as she had an affinity towards Jungian psychology, which she became interested in as an anthropology graduate student under Franz Boas at Columbia University (Mead, 1972). Boas’s (1966) anthropological viewpoint is significant as he presents one of the first postcolonial critiques of culture. Boas firmly placed all cultures on an equal footing and dis