Post Jerrold M, Ali Farhana, Henderson Schuyler W, Shanfield Steven, Victoroff Jeff, Weine Stevan
Terrorism and Political Violence Committee of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry.
Psychiatry. 2009 Spring;72(1):13-31. doi: 10.1521/psyc.2009.72.1.13.
This paper reviews current understandings of the psychology of suicide terrorism for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to help them better understand this terrifying phenomenon. After discussing key concepts and definitions, the paper reviews both group and individual models for explaining the development of suicide terrorists, with an emphasis on "collective identity." Stressing the importance of social psychology, it emphasizes the "normality" and absence of individual psychopathology of the suicide bombers. It will discuss the broad range of terrorisms, but will particularly emphasize terrorism associated with militant Islam. The article emphasizes that comprehending suicide terrorism requires a multidisciplinary approach that includes anthropological, economic, historical, and political factors as well as psychological ones. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for research, policy, and prevention, reviewing the manner in which social psychiatric knowledge and understandings applied to this phenomenon in an interdisciplinary framework can assist in developing approaches to counter this deadly strategy.
本文为精神科医生和其他心理健康专业人员综述了当前对自杀式恐怖主义心理的理解，以帮助他们更好地理解这一可怕现象。在讨论了关键概念和定义之后，本文回顾了用于解释自杀式恐怖分子形成的群体和个体模型，重点是“集体身份”。强调社会心理学的重要性，它强调自杀式炸弹袭击者的“正常性”以及个体不存在精神病理学问题。本文将讨论广泛的恐怖主义，但将特别强调与激进伊斯兰教相关的恐怖主义。文章强调，理解自杀式恐怖主义需要一种多学科方法，其中包括人类学、经济、历史和政治因素以及心理因素。本文最后讨论了对研究、政策和预防的影响，回顾了社会精神病学知识和理解在跨学科框架中应用于这一现象的方式如何有助于制定应对这一致命策略的方法。
