Extreme Overvalued Beliefs
Clinical and Forensic Psychiatric Dimensions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 February 2025
- ISBN 9780197612552
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages152 pages
- Size 244x160x20 mm
- Weight 363 g
- Language English 576
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Short description:
Extreme Overvalued Beliefs makes a profound argument that most violent targeted attacks are incorrectly classified as motivated by delusions or obsessions. Drawing on exceptionally clear and vivid details of crimes such as the JFK assassination and the January 6th US Capitol attack, the monograph illuminates three easily understood cognitive drivers of targeted attacks, arguing that we must embrace these in order to thwart future incendiary acts.
MoreLong description:
This foundational work demystifies the motives behind targeted attacks.
In October of 2018, Cesar Sayoc mailed pipe bombs to sixteen supposed critics of former president Donald Trump. After his arrest by the FBI, Sayoc eventually pled guilty to multiple felony charges including using weapons of mass destruction in an attempted domestic terror attack. At the time of his sentencing, Sayoc's defense attorneys used the terms "delusion" and "obsession" to describe the beliefs that led to his actions, arguing that he acquired these beliefs from right-wing media and Facebook interactions.
Riveting and surprising in its persuasive simplicity, Extreme Overvalued Beliefs makes a profound argument that most violent targeted attacks are incorrectly classified as motivated by delusions or obsessions. Drawing on exceptionally clear and vivid details of crimes such as the JFK assassination, Oklahoma City bombing, and the January 6th US Capitol attack, as well as the Sandy Hook and Uvalde school shootings, the monograph illuminates three easily understood cognitive drivers of targeted attacks, arguing that we must embrace these in order to thwart future incendiary acts. Reprising the work of neuroscientist Carl Wernicke, Dr. Rahman elegantly separates culturally shared, relished, and extreme ideologies from delusional thinking. Extreme Overvalued Beliefs belongs in the libraries of mental health and legal professionals but will also appeal to those yearning to learn more about the epidemic of mass violence we have become accustomed to living with.
The yawning space between delusional and normal cognitions is artfully and scientifically described by this most important work on extreme overvalued beliefs. We are awash in such simplistic, binary and absolute ways of thinking. Dr. Rahman not only elucidates this heretofore psychiatric no man's land, but makes a critical contribution to our social and political discourse.
Table of Contents:
Extreme Overvalued Beliefs: A Concise History
Lethal Fixations
Chapter 3: Extreme Overvalued Beliefs
Chapter 4: Red Flags
Chapter 5: Anorexia Nervosa, Querulants, and Others
Chapter 6: Lee Harvey Oswald: A New Perspective
Chapter 7: Fame at Any Cost-Sandy Hook
Chapter 8: Digital Subcultures
Chapter 9: Morally Reasoned Attacks
Chapter 10: Suicide: A Collective Identity
Chapter 11: Extreme Overvalued Beliefs in Literature
Epilogue: Extreme Overvalued Beliefs and Criminal Law
