The identity crisis and its relation to brainwashing and terrorism (terrorist or extremist personality)

Pages: 69-73
Shaimaa Ezzat Basha (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Helwan University, Egypt)

Most of life and psychological adjustment problems are in reality problems of meaning. The will of meaning is the primary motivational power of the human being. The basis of will of meaning is the feeling of responsibility every person has a mission and message in life. If someone has a reason to live, he/she will most likely endure anything and in anyway’ (Morsi, 2002: 59). The current paper aims at identifying what identity crisis, brainwashing, and terrorism mean; the objectives of using brainwashing processes; the targeted groups of brainwashing; the manifestations of identity crisis; as well as the theoretical psychological explanations of identity crisis, brainwashing, and terrorism, and the relationships among them are discussed.