Responses to Terrorism: Can psychosocial approaches break the cycle of violence?

Why do responses to terrorist attacks often perpetuate cycles of deadly violence?

Can an understanding of the psychology of these cycles help us to break them?

Drawing on clinical experience of the care of people and communities affected by violence and disasters and on advances in cognitive and dynamic psychology, attachment theory, group psychology and thanatology, this ground-breaking work by a prominent and varied array of contributors casts light on the causes of terrorism, the reasons w...