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Chapter 5 - Psychopathology of Terrorists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2019

By
Armando Piccinni ,
Donatella Marazziti  and
Antonello Veltri
Edited by
Donatella Marazziti  and
Stephen M. Stahl
Donatella Marazziti
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi, Pisa
Stephen M. Stahl
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Evil, Terrorism and Psychiatry , pp. 42 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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