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Informationen zum Autor Donatella Marazziti is a psychiatrist at the Università degli Studi, Pisa. She is Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neuropsychiatry, Field Editor of CNS Spectrums and Associated Editor of BMJ Psychiatry. Her research interests are focussed on biological markers in psychiatric and normal conditions, psychopharmacology, emotions, attachment and clinical psychiatry. She has authored more than 500 articles and chapters. Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. He has conducted various research projects awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Veterans Affairs, and the pharmaceutical industry. Author of more than 500 articles and chapters, Dr Stahl is also the author of the bestseller Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology (Cambridge, 2013). Klappentext Evil, Terrorism and Psychiatry offers a new conceptualization of terrorism within a neuroscientific domain. Zusammenfassung Terrorism has dominated the domestic and international landscape since 9/11. This book explores how evil! a characteristic of human nature inside all of us! may become extreme! focussed towards destruction and could in turn lead to terror attacks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Evil, terrorism and psychiatry Donatella Marazziti and Stephen M. Stahl; 2. To die to kill: suicide as a weapon. Some historical antecedents of suicide terrorism Stefano Salvatori and Donatella Marazziti; 3. The philosophy of hate and anger Claudio Bonito and Guido Traversa; 4. Identity, alienation and violent radicalisation Antonio Ventriglio and Dinesh Bhugra; 5. The mind of suicide terrorists Donatella Marazzitti, Antonello Veltri and Armando Piccinni; 6. Psychopathology of terrorists Armando Piccinni, Donatella Marazziti and Antonello Veltri; 7. Why is terrorism a man's business? Anne Maria Möller-Leimkühler; 8. Religion, violence, and the brain: a neuroethical perspective Alberto Carrara; 9. Brain alterations potentially associated with aggression and terrorism Bernhard Bogerts, Maria Schöne and Stephanie Breitschuh; 10. Political terrorism and affective polarization in 'black' and 'red' terrorists in Italy during the years 1968-1988 Matteo Pacini and Icro Maremmani; 11. Conditions of life and death of psychiatric patients in France during World War II: euthanasia or collateral casualties? Patrick Lemoine and Stephen M. Stahl; 12. Neuropsychiatric characteristics of antiterrorist operation combatants in the Donbass (Ukraine) Konstantin N. Loganovsky, Natalia A. Zdanevich, Marina V. Gresko, Donatella Marazziti and Tatiana K. Loganovskaja; 13. The international scenario of terrorism Donato Marzano; 14. Identification and prevention of radicalisation. Practice and experiences with a multidisciplinary working model Dorte Sestoft; 15. How to fight terrorism? Political and strategic aspects Erich Vad; Index....
