Psychoanalytic and Spiritual Perspectives on Terrorism

Desire for Destruction
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-63347-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Nina E. Cerfolio masterfully explores the deeper spiritual and psychoanalytic understanding of the origins of human aggressive and destructive instincts which underlie mass shootings and terrorism.

The author survived two terrorist attacks: developing breast cancer from being a first responder at 9/11, and being poisoned by an FSB agent while providing humanitarian aid in the Second Chechen War. Through a personal, scholarly investigation into her psyche, the author describes the spiritual awakening that was catalyzed by these events and their traumatic impact, and examines how a world could create the firmament for the kinds of destructive aggression that are a daily occurrence. Featuring cutting-edge quantitative research and case material, which illustrates the prevalence of undiagnosed and untreated psychiatric illness among mass shooters and terrorists, this book encourages dialogue about the stigma of mental illness and challenges the perception of terrorists as monsters with no societal responsibility.

Championing the forgotten collective humiliation of the marginalized—which in turn breeds terrorism—and documenting a new spiritual lens through which healing is possible, this book will be essential reading for mental health workers and anyone wishing to understand the traumatizing epoch in which we are living.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cerfolio, Nina E

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. Sacred Service and Transcendent Interconnectedness: Being a First Responder at 9/11 and the Traumatic Aftermath  2. Dross into Gold: A Neat Alchemic Conversion from Base Biological Poisoning and Terrorism to Paradisiacal High  3. Healing Ocular Vision While Opening and Expanding My Noetic Eye  4. The Bicycle Shrink: Hope is the Thing with Joe  5. Spiritual Knowing, Not Knowing, and Being Known  6. A Paradigm for Care: Multimodal Psychoanalytic Aid with Children Traumatized by the Second Chechen War  7. Terrorism as a Perverted Negative Form of Attachment and Spirituality  8. Underlying Psychological Motives for Putin's Sponsoring of State Terrorism: Victim Morphs into Perpetrator  9. Terrorism and Mass Shootings Springing from Ideology: A Monolith that Denies the Existence of the Problem of Humanity

Über Autor(innen)

Nina E. Cerfolio, is Assistant Clinical Professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and an internationally-recognized expert on trauma/terrorism and award-winning psychiatrist/psychoanalyst. Through writing, speaking, and original research, Nina offers a spiritual path of healing to transform the pain and trauma of terror into interconnectedness and harmony, and elucidates an expansive understanding of the marginalized.