Evil, Terrorism and Psychiatry
- Editors:
- Donatella Marazziti, Università degli Studi, Pisa
- Stephen M. Stahl, University of California, San Diego
- Date Published: March 2019
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108467766
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Terrorism has dominated the domestic and international landscape since 9/11. Determining what drives people to commit acts of terrorism is no easy task. The important new book fills a gap in the psychology and psychiatry literature by examining the relationship between evil and mental illness, and in particular amongst terrorists. How can evil, a characteristic of human nature, become extreme, intent on destruction and lead to acts of terrorism? Featuring contributions from leading experts in this field, Evil, Terrorism and Psychiatry explores whether there are specific personality traits, psychological characteristics or psychopathological conditions that may favour a lack of control of violence in terrorists. It also offers possible novel prevention strategies to help understand and prevent these acts in future. Featuring articles from a special issue of CNS Spectrums, this book also includes brand new chapters found exclusively in this book.
Read more- Considers evil and terrorism from within a neuroscientific frame to allow the reader to understand the unacceptable: how someone may become a terrorist
- Marries together the uncertainties and vagueness of theories on terrorism, and psychiatrists' reluctance to deal with terrorism to provide a comprehensive overview of evil and terrorism from within a psychiatric frame
- Highlights potential prevention strategies
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'Best read with a pick-and-choose rather than cover-to-cover approach, this slim edited volume may spark curiosity …' S Blincoe, Choice
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- Date Published: March 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108467766
- length: 188 pages
- dimensions: 186 x 124 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.21kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus. 5 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Evil, terrorism and psychiatry Donatella Marazziti and Stephen M. Stahl
2. To die to kill: suicide as a weapon. Some historical antecedents of suicide terrorism Stefano Salvatori and Donatella Marazziti
3. The philosophy of hate and anger Claudio Bonito and Guido Traversa
4. Identity, alienation and violent radicalisation Antonio Ventriglio and Dinesh Bhugra
5. The mind of suicide terrorists Donatella Marazzitti, Antonello Veltri and Armando Piccinni
6. Psychopathology of terrorists Armando Piccinni, Donatella Marazziti and Antonello Veltri
7. Why is terrorism a man's business? Anne Maria Möller-Leimkühler
8. Religion, violence, and the brain: a neuroethical perspective Alberto Carrara
9. Brain alterations potentially associated with aggression and terrorism Bernhard Bogerts, Maria Schöne and Stephanie Breitschuh
10. Political terrorism and affective polarization in 'black' and 'red' terrorists in Italy during the years 1968–1988 Matteo Pacini and Icro Maremmani
11. Conditions of life and death of psychiatric patients in France during World War II: euthanasia or collateral casualties? Patrick Lemoine and Stephen M. Stahl
12. Neuropsychiatric characteristics of antiterrorist operation combatants in the Donbass (Ukraine) Konstantin N. Loganovsky, Natalia A. Zdanevich, Marina V. Gresko, Donatella Marazziti and Tatiana K. Loganovskaja
13. The international scenario of terrorism Donato Marzano
14. Identification and prevention of radicalisation. Practice and experiences with a multidisciplinary working model Dorte Sestoft
15. How to fight terrorism? Political and strategic aspects Erich Vad
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