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The Cult of Osama - Psychoanalyzing Bin Laden and His Magnetism for Muslim Youths (Hardcover)
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The Cult of Osama - Psychoanalyzing Bin Laden and His Magnetism for Muslim Youths (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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In The Cult of Osama, Psychiatrist Peter Olsson examines Osama bin
Laden's early life experiences and explains, from a
psychoanalytical perspective, how those created a mind filled with
perverse rage at America, as well as why his way of thinking makes
him in many cases a hero to Arab and Muslim youths. "Many other
writings totally demonize bin Laden, and therein strangely play
into putting this troubled man onto a pedestal," says Olsson, who
spent 25 years on a social psychological and psychoanalytical study
of destructive cults and cult leaders. There are many journalistic,
political, military, and intelligence books about bin Laden and his
terror cult group. But this one offers a purely psychological and
psychobiographical perspective on bin Laden and his mushrooming
influence. Bin Laden's destructive "Pied Piper" appeal, leading
youths to murder others and even themselves in suicide missions,
stems from the peculiar and profoundly important synchrony of
shared trauma and pain between bin Laden and Arab/Muslim youth,
says Olsson. "And we in the West neglect this topic, at our own
peril." Among the insights Olsson provides as he traces the
psychological threads of narcissistic wounds and unresolved grief
from Osama's childhood are the death of his father when Osama was
10, separation from his mother even earlier, the humiliation of
Osama as the "son of a slave" in his father's household, and his
lifelong search for a surrogate older brother and father figures
among radical Islamist teachers and mentors. Olsson also spotlights
the idea that Osama experienced "dark epiphanies" as a young adult
which further magnified and focused his unresolved disappointments
and narcissistic rage. Thispsychobiography of one of the world's
most notorious terrorists, written by an Assistant Professor at
Dartmouth Medical School, shows how understanding the psychohistory
and mindset of bin Laden could help prevent the development and
actions of home-grown American and Western terrorists and their
cells.
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