"Following the attacks of September 11th 2001, one of the resounding questions asked was ""What would make anyone do such a thing?"" The psychological mentality of the suicidal terrorist left a gaping hole in people's understanding. This essential volume represents a much-needed effort to collate and examine some of the material already at our disp"
By:
John Alderdice
Edited by:
Jean Arundale,
Coline Covington,
Jean Knox,
Paul Williams
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.002kg
ISBN: 9780367326005
ISBN 10: 0367326000
Pages: 435
Publication Date: 31 July 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword -- Introduction -- Terrorism -- Introduction -- Thoughts and photographs, World Trade Centre: 11th September 2001 -- The eleventh of September massacre -- Thoughts on September 11th, 2001 -- Beyond bombs and sanctions -- From containment to leakage, from the collective to the unique: therapist and patient in shared national trauma -- The psychodynamic dimension of terrorism -- Reflections on the making of a terrorist -- Hatred, Enmity and Revenge -- Introduction -- On hatred: with comments on the revolutionary, the saint, and the terrorist -- The role of hatred in the ego -- Fundamentalism and idolatry -- The benign and malignant other -- Why War? -- Introduction -- Freud/Einstein correspondence -- Jung correspondence: Letter to Dorothy Thompson -- Thoughts for the times on war and death: a psychoanalytic address on an interdisciplinary problem -- Psychoanalysis and war -- Psychoanalysis and war—response to Diana Birkett -- Psychological defence and nuclear war -- Silence is the real crime -- The Aftermath of War -- Introduction -- Destructiveness, atrocities and healing: epistemological and clinical reflections -- Omagh: the beginning of the reparative impulse? -- The transgenerational transmission of holocaust trauma: lessons learned from the analysis of an adolescent with obsessive compulsive disorder -- The holocaust and the power of powerlessness: survivor guilt an unhealed wound -- Exile and bereavement -- Forget -- Glossary*