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Insurrection in the U.S. Capitol: Understanding psychotic, projective and introjective group processes

Insurrection in the U.S. Capitol: Understanding psychotic, projective and introjective group... Leader‐follower and intra‐group dynamics are analyzed for two large groups who participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Psychotic, projective and introjective defenses are seen to have increasingly developed within these groups in the months leading up to the Insurrection. These were amplified by three incendiary forces: escalating feelings of victimization, an undermining of a sense of truth and of trust in the national government, and an amplification of false messages by social media barrages. This exploration uses as data the multiple reports of journalists who witnessed the Capitol uprising or who conducted individual interviews with group members, as well as reports from the U.S. Department of Justice. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

Insurrection in the U.S. Capitol: Understanding psychotic, projective and introjective group processes

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1742-3341
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Abstract

Leader‐follower and intra‐group dynamics are analyzed for two large groups who participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Psychotic, projective and introjective defenses are seen to have increasingly developed within these groups in the months leading up to the Insurrection. These were amplified by three incendiary forces: escalating feelings of victimization, an undermining of a sense of truth and of trust in the national government, and an amplification of false messages by social media barrages. This exploration uses as data the multiple reports of journalists who witnessed the Capitol uprising or who conducted individual interviews with group members, as well as reports from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies – Wiley

Published: Dec 1, 2021

Keywords: applied psychoanalysis; group‐leader dynamics; large group regressions; psychotic group processes; the “mob”or“horde”

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