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        Construing a 'perfect knight' : a personal construct investigation of mass murder

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        Winter, David
        Tschudi, Finn
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        2299/15676
        Abstract
        On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik emailed a compendium entitled, “2083: A Declaration of European Independence,” to more than 1,000 addresses before bombing government buildings in Oslo and attacking a Labor Party youth camp, killing 77 people. This article adopts a credulous attitude and analyzes a personal section of his compendium from a personal construct psychology perspective, as if it were a self-characterization. Its aim is to understand further the construing processes of individuals who become “radicalized” or engage in acts of extreme violence, on the assumption that such understanding is a prerequisite for preventative and restorative strategies. The personal construct formulation of Breivik's construing and actions is compared with the analysis of terrorism by an historian, Roger Griffin
        Publication date
        2015-04-03
        Published in
        Journal of Constructivist Psychology
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2013.846837
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        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/15676
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