The Roots of Radicalization: Disrupted Attachment Systems and Displacement

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In The Roots of Radicalization: Disrupted Attachment Systems and Displacement, Victor Counted examines the expressions of attachment-related radicalization. Counted argues that radicalization is rooted in experiences of disrupted attachment in religion, places, or with people who are perceived as sources of security.

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Victor Counteds The Roots of Radicalization poses a landmark in bridging interpersonal, place-based, and religious forms of attachment surrounding the twenty-first centurys most pervasive phenomenon: radicalization. Counted frames various forms of extremism within the ecosystem of contemporary social reality, analyzing radicalizations tragic basis in psychological attachment disruption (whether this pertains to an abstract religious figure or to mundane social and environmental bodies). Counteds argument converges with other brilliant ideas within recent psychological and social science trends and draws on relevant science-based implications to inspire and design constructive solutions to what could otherwise be a lethal global scenario.

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