Roots of Radicalization

Victor Counted is research fellow in the School of Psychology at Western Sydney University.

This text attempts to explain the process of radicalization through the concepts associated with disrupted attachment. The majority of the work is devoted to educating the reader regarding attachment and theories of disrupted attachment. Counted employs discourse analysis to analyze scenarios of disrupted attachment in order to demonstrate how radicalized individuals use language to express their anxieties. Overall he adopts a readable writing style while limiting his use of terms specific to the sociological and psychological disciplines, with the result that this work is accessible to beginners, or students uninitiated in these fields… Counted offers a consistent theory of radicalization. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty.

• Chapter 1: The Attachment Behavioral SystemChapter 2: Patterns of Adult AttachmentChapter 3: Defining Attachment DisruptionsChapter 4: Radicalization, Disrupted Attachment, And Reparative ResponsesChapter 5: Protest and Radicalization Chapter 6: Radicalization, Psychopathology, and Despair Chapter 7: Detachment and Deradicalization