Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review
Psychopathologies Among European Women Involved in Islamist Radicalization: A Review
Diba S. Hosseini Felix Brandes Rashid Bajwa Kaser Ahmed Sabrina Kunze Mohammad Nadeem Isgard Ohls Department of Psychosocial Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, GermanyDiba S. Hosseini, studied psychology at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) (B.Sc; Psychology), studied clinical psychology at the RUG (M.Sc.), currently training as a psychological psychotherapist of behavioral therapy; since 2021 working as a psychologist at an Outpatient Clinic for Mental Disorders; since 2023 working as a research assistant in the project “GeRaMed.”Felix Brandes completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology (B. Sc. Psychology) at the Medical School in Hamburg (MSH). He then studied human medicine in Pécs (Hungary) for two years and completed his studies at the Asklepios Campus Hamburg of Semmelweis University. Since 2023 he is working as a research assistant in the project “GeRaMed.”Rashid Bajwa is a scholar of Islam (M.A.) and works for the German Red Cross as a project manager in the field of violence and radicalization prevention. He graduated from the University of Hamburg with an International Master’s degree in Islamic Studies and a bachelor’s degree in History, Languages and Cultures of the Near East with a focus on Islamic Studies and Religious Studies.Kaser Ahmed is working as a medical doctor. As part of his doctoral studies in the Clinical Neuropsychology group at the UKE (Prof. Dr. Steffen Moritz), he is working in the area of metacognitive training (MKT) on the reduction of religious prejudice.Sabrina Kunze is a sociologist, B.A. and studied International Criminology at the University of Hamburg. Since April 2023, she has been working in the GeRaMed project team in the areas of qualitative research methods, online radicalization, and the importance of social media in the radicalization processMohammad Nadeem is a scholar of Islam and the Middle East (M.A.) and works as a project coordinator in the prevention of radicalization in Hamburg schools. As part of his master’s studies at the Center for Modern Middle East Studies at the University of Odense (DK), he focused on the motivations of young Muslims in the European context who have joined the terrorist organization Islamic State. He has also held several lectureships on Islamist radicalization and extremism, political economy, and European foreign policy in the Middle East at the University of Hamburg since 2021.Isgard Ohls is a specialist in psychiatry, theologian, musician and a research associate at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. At UKE, scientific research programs on the use of a cognitive training program – Metacognitive Training (MKT) – to reduce religious prejudice and thus potentially extremist, religiously motivated violence in the general German population have been taking place since 2015. Further academic interest includes medical humanities, healing arts, music medicine, religion and spirituality.