Investigating the role of mental health in terrorism motives: study of documented attacks from the Global Terrorism Database
The possible relation between terrorism and mental illness or addiction is a recent phenomenon in the GTD. The prototypical case consists of a lone actor suffering from an assumed mental illness committing an armed assault. Only a minority of perpetrators were unable to stand trial in this series.
Authors
- Gregory R. Ciottone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3313-1379)
- Fredrik Granholm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1255-8832)
- Harald De Cauwer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-5988)
- P. Cras
- Dennis G. Barten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7185-9491)
- Derrick Tin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0804-5313)
- Francis Somville (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8744-5066)
- Amir Khorram‐Manesh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2734-5733)
- Katrien Verveckken
Institutions
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Antwerp (BE)
- Sundsvall Municipality (SE)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (US)
- Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona (IT)
- VieCuri Medisch Centrum (NL)
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2026.10553
- Primary Topic
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00