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result of the lifestyle and activities that the terrorists are involved in, this process is known to be hazardous and stressful. “The variables that may be of importance in contributing to mental illness many include: terrorist lifestyle, terrorism effect, terrorist group conflict, interrogation effects, and the effect on the individual of the conditions of imprisonment(incarceration)” (Jones and Moran, 2003, p. 702). PTSD is one of the primary variables they focus on in the article. Most of the general public attributes PTSD to be associated solely with military personal. PTSD has been diagnosed in non-military individuals. A recent study conducted in the Middle East in “20007 studied 1500 children specifically 600 Palestinians, 450 Israeli …show more content…

ISIS and other extremist terror groups believe that their religion is superior to all, they claim they need to purify/cleanse the Middle East. The Social Learning Theory applies to youths who grow up in conditions with immense violence. The Socialization View of Terrorism and the Ideological View are also present in the documentary. Another concept from class that was in the video was the term insurgents. Insurgents use fear/terror tactics to achieve their goals, ISIS does this with threatening the refugees about selling their family members near the beginning of the film. The term Zealots can also be used to describe ISIS extremists. In the article, Psychology of Terrorism, the concept of psychoanalytic was brought up. This article focused on violence and how it leads to terrorism, “the most widely recognized theory that addresses the roots of all forms of violence is the psychoanalytic model (Borum, 2004, p.11). The next class topic discussed in the articles was the Social Learning Theory. “If aggression is a learned behavior, then terrorism, a specific type of aggressive behavior, can also be learned” (Borum, 2004, p.13). The next topic was the Cognitive Theory; ISIS is unable to solve their problems with an act of a non-aggressive behavior/solution. Having a perception that their environment needs to be cleansed because of the Yazidi is also an example of that theory, filtering thoughts through their beliefs. Profiling was also mentioned in the article. The Russell and Miller Profile was published in the late 1970s; it was a combination of data from eighteen different terrorist organizations including “Palestinian, Japanese, German, Italian, Turkish, Irish, Spanish, Iranian, Argentinian, Brazilian, and Uruguayan terrorist groups” (Borum, 2004, p.

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