[GOPJ]

Not a long shot - might be the only way...

we need to do something to penetrate that psychotic groupthink, and that one way to do it might be to break that circular thinking by bringing unconscious or semi-conscious motives out into the open, thereby weakening them. It may be a longshot, it may be ineffective, but we've tried everything else.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Not a long shot - might be the only way..."

What got me thinking this way was the suicide bombers in Iraq who are now blowing up mosques and killing innocent Muslims. When Muslims are blowing up mosques and killing Muslims supposedly in defense of Islam, something very strange is going on psychologically. It suggests a split in the psyche; it suggests a psychosis deeper than Islam in which part of the psyche has in fact split off from Islam and is battling the part that is trying to hang on to Islam. These acts of suicidal violence make more sense as failures of psychic integration than as coherent expressions of Islam, even of militant Islam. (Now donning flame retardant suit.)