by Stephen B.Chadwick, MA Counselling Psychology.
www.cowichancounselling.ca |
| Patty Hearst |
So, Dear Friends,
It has been a while since I last posted, being very occupied with many other concerns. However I have been asked by a follower to elaborate a bit on the phenomenon of radicalization. Especially since we have of late been witnessing it so much in the media in the last number of months, what with the ISIS beheadings and of course, here in Canada, what has happened recently with Patrice Vincent and Nathan Cirillo.
The way I view the radicalization of young people seems to be not just one single answer, like: "they're brain-washed" but rather a combination of factors. Anybody remember Patty Hearst?
Or for that matter the Baader-Meinhof Group or "Rote Armee Fraktion"?
Or the "Moonies" as members of the Unification Church were once called?
Radicalization is perhaps then just the same type of phenomenon exhibited in other forms and in other times and eras.
