Citation

Yordanova K. Am. J. Psychoanal. 2016; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

kalinajord@yahoo.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1057/s11231-016-9046-5

PMID

27377398

Abstract

Large numbers of young people have joined jihadists groups in the Syrian/Iraqi conflict. Why would these young people decide to become jihadist fighters? What are the representations of the West they hold and how do these representations shape their decision? Drawing on the psychotherapeutic work with Syrian and Iraqi asylum seekers, this paper seeks to explain the most intimate reasons of young Muslim would-be fighters to join the Islamic State militias.

Language: en