Submitted by Craig Rowley on March 10, 2008 - 9:16pm.
Indeed,there is a widespread assumption that the ranks of terrorists arefilled with seriously psychologically disturbed individuals. It's an assumption arising from pop psychology, reinforced by Hollywoodtypecasting. Yet psychiatrists and psychologists find it is not goingtoo far to assert that terrorists are psychologically "normal" in thesense of not being clinically psychotic. Terrorists are neitherdepressed nor severely emotionally disturbed, nor are they crazedfanatics