Allocentrism

The Allocentrisme is a behavior or a form of thought - attitude - of morbid type. Popularized definitions of this term confer to him a range less connoted with a direction of devotion to the collective cause. Nevertheless, the allocentrism could not be associated with the attitude with Altérité, in what it consists more with a stubbornness rather than of a respectful step of others.

Etymology

This word is formed starting from two terms Latin:

ales: other, dissimilar, is often opposed to homo or homeo ( similar )
centrum: centr (O) -, - centrie, - centric, - centrism], relating to the center , in psychiatry

Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychology

Tendency to do others the center of the universe, its concerns, its interests… and to center its own activities compared to what does another, with an obsessional tendency.

The allocentrism refers to a creation of emotional or emotional dependence of a person with respect to an other (or of several), correlated with a need for identity recognition - self in the ⇔ group the group in oneself.

The allocentrism is the opposite of the self-centredness which tends to concentrate on oneself its own thoughts and activities.

Allocentrique: adj. characterizes an individual reached of allocentrism . The subject allocentric is interested more in the others with itself.

Allocentric: adj. and N.

In popularization and sociology

A person allocentric (or allocentric) thinks and acts by privileging the interests of a group compared to her own objectives. Thus, Chinese civilization and the culture would be more allocentric that Western civilization and the culture. It would be about primary education Communism on an individual scale.

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Definition on medical dictionary
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