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Terror suicide: how is it possible?

Israel Orbach1

  • 1Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. orbachi@mail.biu.ac.il

Archives of Suicide Research : Official Journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research
|July 12, 2005
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Terror suicide is driven by facilitators, not personal distress. This study examines factors like ideological rage, rewards, and dissociation that enable such acts.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Political Science

Background:

  • Terrorist acts involving suicide present a complex phenomenon.
  • Understanding the motivations behind non-distressed individuals committing suicide is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To differentiate between causes and facilitators of suicide.
  • To analyze the specific facilitators of terror suicide.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis based on the distinction between suicide causes and facilitators.
  • Examination of factors including determination, ideological rage, self-glorification, rewards, dissociation, and language.

Main Results:

  • Terror suicide is primarily facilitated by specific processes rather than personal distress.

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  • Identified facilitators include goal-oriented determination, ideological rage, post-mortem glorification, promised rewards, and induced dissociation.
  • Processes for inducing terror suicide and its facilitators are described.

    • Conclusions:

    • Terror suicide is a distinct phenomenon driven by facilitators.
    • A theoretical profile of the terror suicide attacker is proposed.