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- Title
The Violent True Believer as a 'Lone Wolf' - Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Terrorism.
- Authors
Reid Meloy, J.; Yakeley, Jessica
- Abstract
The existing research on lone wolf terrorists and case experience are reviewed and interpreted through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. A number of characteristics of the lone wolf are enumerated: a personal grievance and moral outrage; the framing of an ideology; failure to affiliate with an extremist group; dependence on a virtual community found on the Internet; the thwarting of occupational goals; radicalization fueled by changes in thinking and emotion - including cognitive rigidity, clandestine excitement, contempt, and disgust - regardless of the particular ideology; the failure of sexual pair bonding and the sexualization of violence; the nexus of psychopathology and ideology; greater creativity and innovation than terrorist groups; and predatory violence sanctioned by moral (superego) authority. A concluding psychoanalytic formulation is offered. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
LONE wolves (Terrorists); TERRORISTS -- Psychology; PSYCHOANALYSIS; ANTISOCIAL personality disorders; PSYCHOPATHY; VIOLENCE &; psychology
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 3, p347
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2109