Paru le 13/03/2024 | Broché 172 pages
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preface by Christian Vallar | afterword by Marc Benveniste
Psychiatric Profile of the Terrorist
The terrible attacks of 11 September 2001, brutally brought the world into a 21st century dominated by hyper-terrorism. Few attempts have been made to understand the psychology of radical revolutionary Islamists, yet the Islamic State has attracted individuals from 120 countries around the world. It is the greatest extra-territorial fighting force since the Second World War and the new « foul beast » after Nazism. Billions of dollars are spent around the world on our security, but nothing at all on psychiatric research to determine the intra-psychic personality traits of terrorists. To reduce the number of terrorist acts by 80 %, Professor Michel-Alexandre Bailly proposes the idea of establishing the world's first intrapsychic intelligence service in France. He attempts to define a particular mental disorder, « namely the radical terrorist syndrome », and works for its inclusion in the World Health Organisation (WHO) statistical classification of mental disorders and in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association.
Michel-Alexandre Bailly - a brilliant academic, a scientist, humanist, consultant in economics and international security, Colonel ad honores, citizen reservist to the Military Governor of Paris, Fire Commissioner of the Arc de Triomphe, internationally recognised expert on defence and terrorism issues - has often gone against unscientific dogmas and false theories on security and defence matters. Its three areas of expertise are : the psychopathology of the terrorist, the ballistic-nuclear, and the security-defence continuum. After the Copernicus Street bombing in 1980, he founded the European Consultants Institute, an organization for the dissemination of the culture of peace in Europe. He is the Vice-President of the Academy of Commercial Sciences and corresponding member of the Russian Federation and Hungary. Ph. D. in Economics, he was successively the auditor of the Centre for Higher Studies in Armaments (CHEAR), the Institute of Higher Studies in Internal Security (IHESI) and the Institute of National Defence Reseach (IHEDN). His initial training as an electronic engineer was complemented by a multidisciplinary approach to a better understanding of the psychology of terrorists : Master in Criminal Sciences from CNAM, University Degree in Transcultural Psychiatry, University Degree in Psychopathology and Neurological Disorders, University Degree in Psychotherapies and Developmental Psychopathology (Paris-Descartes Faculty of Medicine, 2020). He is the Director of the following organization : the Intelligence Grand Prize of the Association of Veterans of Intelligence Services of France, and « Ex-Invisible » Allied Countries (2020).
He is also a Knight of the French Legion of Honor, a Commander of the National Order of Merit, a Commander of Academic Palms as well as of the Order of Arts and Letters.
