Alice LoCicero, a clinical researcher and psychologist, discusses her new book Why ‘Good Kids' Turn Into Deadly Terrorists
[From article]
We have to understand a concept called intergenerational transmission of trauma, and what that means basically is even if you didn’t have any traumatic thing happen to you, but your grandparents, parents, people in your family had enormous amounts of trauma, that will have an impact.
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After graduation, after leaving Cambridge, that support fell away, and I think there was a real challenge to find a new community of support.
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Someone comes along and convinces the person that the best way to make a meaningful life and make a statement is by killing a bunch of people and making everybody scared.
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What we need to do is (have) a diverse group of adults of goodwill who find ways to educate kids and mentor kids so that they’re not drawn into things that they don’t want to be drawn to, so that they find ways to have a meaningful life of their own choosing that’s really productive and adds to our society.
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It has to be a proactive, universally applied program that’s going to help kids to think for themselves, or to look for mentors to help them think about how to make a good life for themselves, and how to resist people who don’t care about them and want to pull them into something that’s going to be bad for them.
For more information, visit whygoodkidsturnintodeadlyterrorists.com
or email LoCicero at
dralicelocicero (at) gmail.com
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150106/NEWS/150108283/?Start=1
Cambridge psychologist writes book on why ‘good kids' turn into terrorists
By Sara Feijo
sfeijo (at)wickedlocal.com
Posted Jan. 6, 2015 @ 4:29 pm
Updated Jan 6, 2015 at 8:54 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
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