1st Edition

A Cop Doc's Guide to Understanding Terrorism as Human Evil Healing from Complex Trauma Syndromes for Military, Police, and Public Safety Officers and Their Families

By Daniel Rudofossi Copyright 2013
    242 Pages
    by Routledge

    242 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 2017. This book provides profound insights into the terrorist mind, the impact of terrorism on the hearts and minds of those who must confront and battle the evil of terrorism, case studies in courage in the battle against terrorism, and (finally, most of all) this book provides a strategy and underlying set of principles that we must use to defeat terrorism and “not only survive but . . . give strength back to others.”

    Foreword by Lt. Col. David Grossman, U.S. Army Rangers, Ret.
     Preface by Col. Danny R. McKnight, U.S. Army Rangers, Ret.
     Acknowledgments

     INTRODUCTION

     PART I
     Foundations: Theory of Terrorism, Universal Fear, and Death Drive

     CHAPTER 1 Primer to the Terrorist Mindset
    This chapter offers a rational, passionate historic layout of how ancient the motivation of death, murder, and killing is from a police officer and police psychologist perspective.

     PART II
     Antidote to Terrorism: The Terror Event Frames the Elixir

     CHAPTER 2 Impact of Terror Attacks: Unnatural Traumatic Events
    This chapter uses clinical case examples to highlight the lessons presented as problems of terrorism and the healthy solutions of courage and the resilience of healing.

     PART III
     Administering the Antidote: Meaning Sown in Battlefields of Terrorism

     CHAPTER 3  Conduit of Resilience: Integrity of the Officer Stance Supported
    This chapter continues with the importance of ‘self-witnessing,’ the attitude of the warrior–public safety officer’s ability to mourn losses while valuing the hidden strengths in her/his command presence.

     CHAPTER 4  Antidotes from Poison: Meaning Sown in Battlefields of Terrorism
    The final chapter continues the case examples of different and remarkable antidotes to terrorism that are forged from inhumane trauma assaults without and are shielded from faith, power and human strength within.

     Epilogue to the Closing of Policing, Public Safety, and Armed Services: Po-Em-Fighters, 2222: Politically Correct and Addictively Amused Forces United in the Year 2222

     References
     Index

    Biography

    Daniel Rudofossi New York University