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Guns and Violence in the International Arena
Author(s) -
Volkan Vamık D.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.1491
Subject(s) - entitlement (fair division) , commit , ideology , criminology , identity (music) , psychology , political science , social psychology , sociology , law , politics , aesthetics , economics , philosophy , mathematical economics , database , computer science
This paper illustrates how psychoanalyst should consider an interdisciplinary approach in examining the gun violence in the United States. Besides offering individualized and shared psychological causes it is necessary to understand environmental, cultural, and historical influences. By providing examples for other countries, this paper describes how grasping on one's large‐group identity and being exposed to entitlement ideologies and malignant propaganda influence people to commit murders.