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The Psychology of Suicide Terrorism
Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 2009This paper reviews current understandings of the psychology of suicide terrorism for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to help them better understand this terrifying phenomenon. After discussing key concepts and definitions, the paper reviews both group and individual models for explaining the development of suicide terrorists, with ...
Jerrold M, Post +5 more
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Forensic Update, 2007
Psychological perspectives on understanding terrorism from the perspective of the perpetrators are, at present, limited, obscure and wholly underdeveloped. This short paper addresses what a ‘psychology of terrorism’ currently implies in this regard, and suggests how a more nuanced focus can help shape future research efforts, providing a number of ...
Shahid Bux, John Horgan
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Psychological perspectives on understanding terrorism from the perspective of the perpetrators are, at present, limited, obscure and wholly underdeveloped. This short paper addresses what a ‘psychology of terrorism’ currently implies in this regard, and suggests how a more nuanced focus can help shape future research efforts, providing a number of ...
Shahid Bux, John Horgan
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Terrorism, Trauma and Psychology
2014This book provides a comprehensive insight into the multilayered effects experienced by directly affected victims and their indirectly affected family members following terrorist incidents and other world disasters. Chapters draw primarily on interviews with fifty victims of the Bali bombings, but also consider terrorist incidents including the London ...
Brooks, G., Pooley, J.A., Earnest, Jaya
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2004
Easily the most thorough treatment of terrorism's complexities on the market today is how one reviewer described the set from which this single volume is drawn: the 4-volume Psychology of Terrorism. Here, Editor Chris E. Stout presents seven classic chapters from across that multivolume set, which brought together experts from around the world in the ...
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Easily the most thorough treatment of terrorism's complexities on the market today is how one reviewer described the set from which this single volume is drawn: the 4-volume Psychology of Terrorism. Here, Editor Chris E. Stout presents seven classic chapters from across that multivolume set, which brought together experts from around the world in the ...
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Terrorism as Psychological Warfare
Democracy and Security, 2005“Terrorism” is linked to “terror” which is a state of mind, created by a level of fear that so agitates body and mind that those struck by it are not capable of making an objective assessment of ri...
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2004
Wittingly or unwittingly, the ethic of love has contributed to the development of an inner state of siege—a psychology of terror—that accounts for the psychic neurosis of the West. In what follows, I will examine Freud’s efforts to provide a remedy for the sort of pathology that Christian morality invites.
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Wittingly or unwittingly, the ethic of love has contributed to the development of an inner state of siege—a psychology of terror—that accounts for the psychic neurosis of the West. In what follows, I will examine Freud’s efforts to provide a remedy for the sort of pathology that Christian morality invites.
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2016
The coordinated attacks attributed to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS; also called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL) across Paris that left 130 civilians dead, the massacre of 2,000 in Baga, Nigeria, by the Boko Haram, or the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 that killed 3 and injured 264 are but a few examples of the terrorist ...
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The coordinated attacks attributed to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS; also called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL) across Paris that left 130 civilians dead, the massacre of 2,000 in Baga, Nigeria, by the Boko Haram, or the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 that killed 3 and injured 264 are but a few examples of the terrorist ...
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Psychological Aspects of Terrorism
2011This work illustrates the social and psychological factors underlying the ideological sympathy for terrorism, in order to create an intense exchange of views between hypotheses coming from the field of anthropology, sociology, social psychology and cognitive psychology.
Ruggiero Giovanni Maria +1 more
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Society and Structures, 2003
The events of 11 September 2001 in the United States have focused our minds acutely on terrorism, far more than ever in the past. In a way, this is surprising, as terrorism has been around for hundreds of years, and there are perhaps many other countries and societies that have suffered substantively more from it during the course of their respective ...
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The events of 11 September 2001 in the United States have focused our minds acutely on terrorism, far more than ever in the past. In a way, this is surprising, as terrorism has been around for hundreds of years, and there are perhaps many other countries and societies that have suffered substantively more from it during the course of their respective ...
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2015
Psychologists and psychiatrists have long been interested in the study of terrorism. This is not surprising since terrorism fundamentally involves the study of behavior. As Victoroff [1] explains, “it would seem appropriate for the scholarly disciplines of psychology and psychiatry to bring their intellectual resources to bear on the political problems
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Psychologists and psychiatrists have long been interested in the study of terrorism. This is not surprising since terrorism fundamentally involves the study of behavior. As Victoroff [1] explains, “it would seem appropriate for the scholarly disciplines of psychology and psychiatry to bring their intellectual resources to bear on the political problems
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