Positive Existential Psychology for the Prevention of Extrem ...
Alain Ruffion
- 01 augustus 2025
- 9783031978012
Samenvatting:
Many scientific works and studies have focused on the phenomena of extremism and violent radicalization. This book, deliberately choosing positive and existential psychology as a resource, proposes to answer this question with the support of scientific and creative resources that finally address and respond to the root causes.
This book offers a new perspective on a complete diagnosis of the violent radicalization process. Over the past two decades, numerous international studies have sought to shed light on the processes that lead to the eradication of certain modes of thought and the violent radicalizations which may ensue. However, diagnosing these processes is fraught with several pitfalls: a lack of robust evidence grounded in scientific evaluations, a partial approach that overlooks critical aspects of these processes, and biased, even ideologically driven, perspective that conflates political struggle with scientific inquiry.
In this book the authors propose a synthesis of approaches which are both evidence-based and multi-model/multifocal. This multifocal approach will inform a transformative process, shifting from pathological and destructive passions in cases of extremism and radicalization to virtuous passions as individuals achieve positive self-individuation and socialization. The book then focusses on violent radicalization processes and Strategies to Rebuild a Balance Favorable to Protective Factor. This book and framework will therefore illuminate four key axes of prevention, which we will prioritize and enrich through the lenses of positive and existential psychology.
Alain Ruffion is part-time professor of psychopathology at University of Kenitra, Marocco. He was Born in Switzerland, suggesting his vocation for peace. After having spent long periods in Africa as well as throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, each time to promote understanding and intercultural communication, the fight against racism and all forms of extremism, He became a psychoanalyst and was graduated of Political Science. He is now currently working as a professor and a trainer in a lot of diverse contexts (University, NGO, Firms, Institutions) in Mena region, France and Europe. Besides, he contributed to the foundation of efficient and well known NGO in France (recently ERANOS Institute). He wishes to give rise to citizen commitment toward humane and ecological resilience and spiritual and secular education open to all youths and cultures of the world.