Main description:

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

Contents:

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*