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1Personality Disorders Institute, The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, NY 10605, USA. okernber@med.cornell.edu
Abstract:
This paper is the second in a series of two papers. In Part I, the first paper, the author reviewed the influence on the development of socially sanctioned violence of psychodynamics of group psychology and mass psychology, the regressive pull of ideologies, personality features of social and political leadership, and historical trauma and social crises. In this Part II, the author explores, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the dehumanization processes related to fundamentalist ideologies and terrorism.
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