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David M. Terman

David M. Terman, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and the former director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a co-author of The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History (Oxford University Press, 2010).


Articles by David M. Terman

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Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: the fundamentalist mindset

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Special Topics
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Inside Putin’s head: Paranoid? Calculating? Obsessed by the conspiracy theories of a rehabilitated Russian fascist?

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion