@article{436262,
      recid = {436262},
      author = {De Masi, Franco},
      title = {Enigma of the suicide bomber : a psychoanalytic essay /},
      publisher = {Karnac Books,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {xli, 127 p. ;},
      year = {2011},
      note = {"First published in Italian . . . in 2008 . . . Milan"--  T.p. verso.},
      abstract = {"Why does someone resolve to take his own life in order to  murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows  him to commit such a monstrous act?  This book explores the  mental state that compels certain individuals to perform  murderous, suicidal acts and emphasizes that, whereas a  suicidal terrorist attack can be described as a crime  against humanity, its protagonists cannot necessarily be  classified as criminal or insane. There is no such a thing  as a "typical" suicide terrorist - each attacker differs in  age, sex, family status, culture, and even religion.  Indeed, the common elements in suicide terrorism should  perhaps be sought not so much in the individuals concerned  as in the dynamics rooted in their group, family history or  country. It may be extreme situations experienced by the  group situations that are either objectively extreme or  perceived as such that give rise to paradoxical behaviour  at individual level. Psychoanalysis is well placed to  consider this terrain. Freud, after all, soon disabused his  reader of the belief that the less palatable aspects of  psychic life were the exclusive preserve of some aberrant  sub-category of people." --Publisher's website.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436262},
}