The vacuum of kidnapping

Abstract

All forms of kidnapping are presented in this paper, as is their psychodynamic underpinning affecting human behavior: abduction with or without ransom, political kidnapping, kidnapping by well-organized criminal groups, human trafficking and governmental kidnapping, which all highlight the important crises in the major decline in ethics and values. Apathy, fear, and insecurity lead to an increase in dependencies on substances, psychosomatic problems, and depression, which result from the suffering of this “vacuum of kidnapping.” The author wonders, “Has right to live in peace been kidnapped?”

Key words:

• kidnapping
• ethics and values
• narcissism
• infectious Mexican society

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Rebeca Aramoni

Author

Rebeca Aramoni, MS, PhD, is current deputy-secretary general of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS), delegate to Federación LatinoAmericana de Asociaciones de terapia psicoanalítica y psocoanálisis (FLAPPSIP), director of the Mexican Council of Psychoanalysis, and member of the Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis AC (IMPAC).