For love of the father
Subtitle: a psychoanalytic study of religious terrorism
By: Ruth Stein.
Series: Meridian : crossing aesthetics; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804763042; 9780804763059
Subjects: Terrorism -- Psychological aspects; Terrorists -- Psychology; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evil as love and as liberation : the mind of a suicidal religious terrorist; title: Fundamentalism as vertical mystical homoeros; title: Purification as violence; title: Regression to the father : clinical narratives and theoretical reflections; title: The triadic structure of evil.