indeterminate TERRORIST PROFILE
Recent studies from Harvard University and the Research Institute for Discovery Channel showed to draw a psychological profile of terrorists is literally impossible given the lack of homogenization of motives of which they enjoy.
To begin to understand the psychological approach is necessary to first make a definition of terrorism. In my case (and given the lack of consensus for the term both academic and governmental) will adapt the one used by Terence Powers. "Terrorism is a war strategy that is characterized by establishing terror among the civilian population to force policies or behaviors that would otherwise not occur. Within these behaviors include the acceptance of conditions of various kinds: political, economic, linguistic, of sovereignty, religious, etc.
concerns also calculated use of violence or the threat thereof against the civilian population, usually for the purpose of obtaining any political or religious purpose. Then becoming the tactic of using an act or threat of violence against individuals or groups to change the outcome of a political process.
It is then that the scope of the term and the complexity, the study that I will undertake in this essay will focus on two aspects: the first seeks to explain the sociology of the leader, and the second one that refers to rebels. Having to be very emphatic differentiation between them.
The initiation of studies of the psychology of terrorism dates back to around the mid 60's when a very prestigious group of psychologists attempt to explain the relationship between aggressive behavior of humans with animals. They develop a theory called "Tourette's Dissorder" 4 which proposed that all animals (including humans) are born with the same aggressive instincts, but in the case of men these are inhibited by the frontal lobe of the brain by preventing the attack each other. The study argued that in many cases when a person uses substances that inhibit the proper functioning of the brain (alcohol, drugs, stimulants etc.) these natural instincts come to the surface and it is for this reason that the behavior of people becomes aggressive denoting their true nature.
The approach that these scientists gave to explain the matter was that terrorists such inhibitions were not caused by alcohol or other drug class, if not a conviction deeply rooted in their personalities had such an impact on them I normally would commit any atrocity.
advanced studies, and over time psychologists began to try to explain the behavior of terrorists by giving disorders or trauma at the time of his upbringing. Some argued that the terrorist was an individual I was born in a household with very low resources, autocratic parents, some may have been sexually abused or have never enjoyed a conventional home.
Despite this, the entry of the third wave of terrorism all these theories fall as current bombers were born and (mostly) in homes with problems, or very poor (as the case Bin Laden) forcing us to reconsider all previous theories and that there were raised by some.
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