The Tamerlan Tsarnaev case: The nexus of psychopathology and ideology in a lone actor terrorist.

P. Cotti, Reid Meloy
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This is a psychoanalytic case study of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the terrorist who bombed the Boston Marathon in April, 2013, with the help of his younger brother. The focus is upon the nexus between his psychopathology and ideology, in this particular case an arguable paranoid and psychotic disorder and his growing commitment to radical Islam, culminating in his identification as a jihadist warrior and a renunciation of Western ideals. The theoretical approach is both object relations and developmental, with empirical reliance on both primary and secondary source material, including the testimony of those within his family and social network at his brother’s trial. The nexus of psychopathology and ideology in this case is the degree to which conspiratorial belief systems blaming, among others, an international Jewish conspiracy and a covert CIA program—which he found in both the virtual (Internet) and terrestrial (travel to Dagestan) worlds—helped alleviate the anxiety of a decompensating mind.
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塔梅尔兰·察尔纳耶夫案:一个单独行动的恐怖分子的精神病理学和意识形态的联系。
这是塔梅尔兰·萨纳耶夫(Tamerlan Tsarnaev)的精神分析案例研究,他是在弟弟的帮助下,于2013年4月在波士顿马拉松爆炸案中的恐怖分子。重点是他的精神病理和意识形态之间的联系,在这个特殊的案例中,他是一种有争议的偏执和精神障碍,以及他对激进伊斯兰教日益增长的承诺,最终导致他被认定为圣战战士,并放弃了西方理想。理论方法是对象关系和发展的,经验依赖于主要和次要的原始材料,包括他的家庭和社会网络在他兄弟的审判中的证词。在这种情况下,精神病理学和意识形态之间的联系是阴谋论信仰体系在多大程度上指责了国际犹太人的阴谋和中情局的秘密计划——他在虚拟(互联网)和现实(前往达吉斯坦)世界中都发现了这些阴谋——帮助减轻了失代偿精神的焦虑。
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