Introduction
This short chapter highlights the career and contributions of Dr. Carl C. Bell, M.D. Dr. Bell has provided direction for the inquiry into whether racism might, in some cases, be a symptom of a narcissistic personality dynamics. Further, Dr. Bell and his colleague Dr. Ed Dunbar have proposed that at times racism may even be a symptom of a narcissistic personality disorder.
Carl Compton Bell, M.D., is the retired president/CEO of the Community Mental Health Council, Inc. and the retired director of the Institute for Juvenile Research (birthplace of child psychiatry) who is a clinical psychiatrist in Jackson Park Hospital’s Family Medicine Center. He is a retired professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine and a retired professor of public health at the School of Public Health University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition, he is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.
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Bell, C. C. (1978). Racism, narcissism and integrity. Journal of the National Medical Association, 70(2), 89–92.
Bell, C. C. (1980). Racism: A symptom of the narcissistic personality disorder. Journal of the National Medical Association, 72(7), 661–665. https://brainmass.com/file/300751/Bell_Racism%2520and%2520Narcissism.pdf
Bell, C. C. (2004). Taking issue – Racism – A mental illness? Psychiatric Services, 55(12), 1343.
Bell, C. C. (2013). State of the art and science – Dynamic descriptions of personality disorder in the DSM-5. American Medical Association Journal – Virtual Mentor, 15(10), 857–859. http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2013/10/stas1-1310.html
Bell, C. C., & Dunbar, E. (2012). Racism and psychopathology. In T. A. Widiger (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of personality disorders (pp. 694–709). New York: Oxford University Press.
Skodol, A. E., Bender, D. S., Morey, L. C., Alarcon, R. D., Siever, L. J., Clark, L. A., Krueger, R. F., Verheul, R., Bell, C. C., & Oldham, J. M. (2011a). Proposed changes in personality and personality disorder assessment and diagnosis for DSM-5 Part I: Description and rationale. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 2(1), 4–22.
Skodol, A. E., Bender, D. S., Morey, L. C., Clark, L. A., Oldham, J. M., Alarcon, R. D., Krueger, R. F., Verheul, R., Bell, C. C., & Siever, L. J. (2011b). Personality disorder types proposed for DSM-5. Journal of Personality Disorders, 25(2), 136–169.
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Bell, C. (2017). Bell, Carl C.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1516-1
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