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The suicide bomber: is it a psychiatric phenomenon?

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Sir: Harvey Gordon's paper (Psychiatric Bulletin, August 2002, 26, 285-287) was refreshing on a worrying topic. I enjoyed the wide academic references to drive home an unemotional and rational argument. I was reassured by the conclusion that there was no need to apply a psychiatric analysis to the phenomenon.

But at one point academic rigour was dropped and that bothers me. The last paragraph states ‘religion can be a force for good’. Where's the evidence for that?

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