Some reflections on my interactions with the late Dr. W. Curtis banks

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MORTALITYUpon the passing of a notable scholar, it is commonplace for his/her colleagues and students to eulogize him/her, chronicle his/her contributions and moments, and to offer their reflections of her/him. I had not spoken with Curtis (he did not let me call him Dr. Banks) in over two years and had no idea that he was ill. Our last correspondence was in 1996 and that was through a student of his who was consulting some of my work. Hearing of his passing in January 1998 was particularly poignant for me since I had just been informed, completely after the fact, of my oldest living brother's successful surgery as he experienced a close encounter with mortality. How easy it would have been to have picked up the phone and called Curtis just to keep in touch, as my siblings and I have agreed to do from now on.I begin my reflections on this point of mortality because each of us has a finite amount of time on the surface of the planet and none of us knows when our time will be up. There-The life of psychologist Dr. W. Curtis Banks is remembered through a discussion of the author's personal observations. The issues focused on are Dr. Banks's intellectualism, his marriage outside of the Black race (which, in African-centered psychology, is construed as a mental health issue), some other noteworthy personal qualities, and hb propounding that the Africentric conception was befit with a DAUDI AJANI YA AZIBO, Ph.D is a full professor of psychology at Florida A&M University. His specialty is African-centered psychology. He is the author of the Azibo Nosology (Journal of Black Psychology, Spring 1989), the only diagnostic system of mental disorders directly linked to African-centered personality theory, African-centered psychology: Culture focusing for multicultural competence (Carolina Academic Press), African American psychology (Sage), African psychology in historical perspective & related commentary (Africa World Press), and the author of the privately-published Liberation Psychology. Correspondence can be addressed to the author at the Psychology Department, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida 32307. theoretical and methodological crisis. In this latter context, a new research framework called the opposite-etic approach/s advanced. Each issue is approached from an African-centered perspective.

Nepenthe Theory of Defense Mechanism Functioning and Defensive Behavior in African-U.S. People With Replication and Extension to Psychological Africanity (Racial Identity)

“…The comparison by race is compelled by the nepenthe formulation and thereby is epistemologically justified (Azibo, 1988(Azibo, , 2002. Points 2 and 3 together implicate an especial association with psychological dysfunction for the maladaptive defense style.…”