 | Media Persuasion in the Islamic State Subjects: IS (Organization); Qaida (Organization); Zarqawi Abu Musab 1966–2006; Mass media -- Political aspects -- Middle East; Jihad -- Psychological aspects; Violence -- Psychological aspects; Persuasion (Psychology); Religious milvitants -- Psychology; Drawing upon research in cultural psychiatry, cultural psychology, and psychiatric anthropology, Neil Krishan Aggarwal investigates how the Islamic State has convinced people to engage in violence. Aggarwal offers a definitive analysis of how culture is created, debated, and disseminated within militant organizations like the Islamic State. Neil Krishan Aggarwal is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, a cultural psychiatrist in private practice, and a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is also the author of the Columbia University Press books Mental Health in the War on Terror: Culture, Science, and Statecraft (2015) and The Taliban's Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community (2016). |
