Posttraumatic and Acute Stress Responses in Hostages Held by Suicide Terrorists in the Takeover of a Moscow Theater

Speckhard, Anne; Tarabrina, Nadejda; Краснов, В.; Mufel, Natalia

doi:10.1528/trau.11.1.3.62932

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“…All four factors are generally necessary to make a terrorist -vulnerabilities alone are not sufficient. (1,(5)(6)(7)(8)(9) When in support of suicide terrorism, these factors fuel a tactic that can travel the world over as a spark igniting and reigniting a massive fire that we can only hope to extinguish before it consumes us in its flames.…”

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Understanding Suicide Terrorism

Speckhard¹

2017

Nervenheilkunde

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SummaryAs a terror tactic, suicide terrorism is one of the most lethal as it relies on a human being to deliver and detonate the device. Suicide terrorism is not confined to a single region or religion. On the contrary, it has a global appeal, and in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan it has come to represent an almost daily reality as it has become the weapon of choice for some of the most dreaded terrorist organizations in the world, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. Drawing on over two decades of extensive field research in five distinct world regions, specifically the Middle East, Western Europe, North America, Russia, and the Balkans, the author discusses the origins of modern day suicide terrorism, motivational factors behind suicide terrorism, its global migration, and its appeal to modern-day terrorist groups to embrace it as a tactic.

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Understanding Suicide Terrorism

Speckhard¹

2017

Nervenheilkunde

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“…After-the-event responses can only be noted in brief here and are examined more deeply in another paper (Speckhard, Tarabrina, Krasnov, & Mufel, 2005). All of the hostages that we interviewed had posttraumatic responses to their ordeal after it was over, and most were still struggling with symptoms of acute or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).…”

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“…Significant acute and posttraumatic stress responses were found in all subjects, as were Stockholm effects, with the exception of one male who showed no Stockholm effects. Due to space limitations, in-depth analysis of longer-term psychological effects and of the hostages’ reports of their observations and interactions with the terrorists aside from those pertaining to Stockholm effects are reported elsewhere (Speckhard, Tarabrina, Krasnov & Akhmedova, 2004 & Speckhard, Tarabrina, Krasnov, & Mufel, 2005).…”

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Stockholm Effects and Psychological Responses to Captivity in Hostages Held by Suicide Terrorists.

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October 2002, 800 plus hostages were held for three days in a Moscow theater by suicide terrorists armed with bombs. The stand-off ended when Russian Special Forces gassed and stormed the theater. One hundred thirty of the hostages died. The authors - an American psychologist and colleagues from the Russian Academy of Sciences - began to collaborate soon after the event. This article reports on interviews with eleven hostages regarding their psychological responses to captivity including their expressions of Stockholm syndrome.

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The Emergence of Female Suicide Terrorists

Speckhard

2008

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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Posttraumatic and Acute Stress Responses in Hostages Held by Suicide Terrorists in the Takeover of a Moscow Theater

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Understanding Suicide Terrorism

Understanding Suicide Terrorism

Stockholm Effects and Psychological Responses to Captivity in Hostages Held by Suicide Terrorists.

The Emergence of Female Suicide Terrorists

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