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Countering the Terrorist Mentality: Collective Identity -- Hatred Bred in the Bone
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Date: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST (1600 GMT)
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There is a widely held assumption that the ranks of terrorists are filled with seriously psychologically disturbed individuals. Who but a crazed fanatic, the thinking goes, would kill innocent victims in the name of a cause or willingly become a human bomb? But Post asserts that terrorists are psychologically 'normal' in that they are not clinically psychotic. "They are neither depressed nor severely emotionally disturbed, nor are they crazed fanatics. In fact, terrorist groups and organizations screen out emotionally unstable individuals — who represent, after all, a security risk." Join Post June 19 for an online discussion on the various motivations that drive some to commit acts of terrorism, and the "collective identity" that is involved.
Guest Biography: Dr. Jerrold Post is a professor of psychiatry, political psychology and international affairs as well as the director of the Political Psychology Program at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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