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Psychoanalytic and Spiritual Perspectives on Terrorism: Desire for Destruction

Author(s) : Nina E. Cerfolio

Reviews and Endorsements

Dr Nina Cerfolio's courageous, highly informative, and innovative book weaves together poignant memoir, original terrorism research, extensive scholarship, and profound spirituality. Inviting us into her remarkable journey, Dr Nina Cerfolio guides us spiritually and psychologically, teaching us to transform the pain and trauma of terror into interconnectedness and harmony. A must-read for clinicians, patients and anyone seeking transformation!
Leanne Domash, PhD, author of Imagination, Creativity and Spirituality in Psychotherapy and The Eel and the Blowfish: A Graphic Novel of Dreams, Trauma and Healing

This is an absolutely astonishing, inspiring and unique book that imbricates personal and historical trauma along with resilience. With searing honesty, it integrates deep scholarship with vivid, dramatic and heroic personal experience. It is required reading on all these levels. Clinically brilliant and moving, it is a book about the roots of individual and state terrorism and also the courage to transcend victimization and heal. Ultimately, Dr Nina Cerfolio's own words describe it best: "My writing this book is a willful act against tyranny. My defiance and determination allows me to not merely survive, but to flourish".
Robert Prince, PhD, ABPP, author of The Legacy of the Holocaust, Psychohistorical Themes in The Second Generation

A beautiful, personal, deeply attuned work on areas of major import to the human condition. This compelling and exquisite book bridges intersections of psychoanalysis, spirituality and human potential. Dr Nina Cerfolio takes us on a profound journey of psychoanalytic and spiritual perspectives and experiences concerning the underpinnings of terrorism, mass shootings and trauma. Timely and thought-provoking, highly recommended to expand and deepen one's vision.
Michael Eigen, PhD, author of The Sensitive Self, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, Contact With the Depths and The Challenge of Being Human

Dr Nina Cerfolio's personal journey through terror, from her childhood through the extraordinary medical-humanitarian missions that placed her in harm's way—and in which she was targeted, and harmed—and her physical and psychic healing and spiritual awakening, are the heart of this moving book. Her meditation on these experiences is grounded in psychiatric and psychoanalytic expertise and a wide swath of scholarship—including her own comprehensive research into the psychiatric and psychosocial backgrounds of mass shooters—and in her deep compassion.
Jay Frankel, PhD, clinical consultant, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Dr Nina Cerfolio writes a book that is inspirational, informative and timely. It is a personal work of transcendence and transformation in the face of terror that is relevant to each of us both as individuals and as members of a global citizenry. This book is a must-read for all of us who live fragile human lives in a world of uncertainty and danger.
William Breibart, MD, chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York