1st Edition
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Fundamentalism, Radicalisation and Terrorism
Introduction 1. One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist: a selected overview of the psychoanalytic and group analytic study of terrorism 2. Fundamentalism, Radicalization and Terrorism. Part 1: terrorism as dissolution in a complex system 3. Fundamentalism, Radicalization and Terrorism. Part 2: fundamentalism, regression and repair 4. Inflammatory projective identification in fundamentalist religious and economic terrorism 5. Rage and hatred in infants: conditions which facilitate development versus those which result in tragic delays or alarming distortions 6. Terror, fundamentalism, and male adolescence 7. Dreaming of Columbine: exploring an offender’s preoccupation with the Columbine Massacre 8. Pathways into terrorism: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 9. Terrorism and mental disorder, and the role of psychiatrists in counter-terrorism in the UK 10. Working together to break the ‘circles of fear’ between Muslim communities and mental health services 11. The challenge of radicalisation: a public health approach to understanding and intervention
Biography
Jessica Yakeley is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Director at the Portman Clinic, London, UK, and Associate Medical Director of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, London, UK and Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Paul Cundy is a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist and a Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Lead at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Leicester, UK and Assistant Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
