Dr. Patrick Christian is a psychoanalytical anthropologist of violent ethnic & cultural conflict in Eurasia, South Asia, Middle East, Central and South America, West Africa, North Africa and the Horn of Africa. His interests involve research, development & instruction of advanced psychosocial curriculum for military, diplomatic, and humanitarian interventions in intra-state violent conflict. His principal Field Experiences over past 30 years include:
- Clinical Research, Analysis, & Training into the psychopathology of violent communal conflict, virulent-extremist ideologies and their Psychosocial Transmission & Epidemiology – especially Violent Orthodoxy and Genocide/Cultural-Suicide
- Conflict Psychoanalysis (includes cognitive imprinting from psychogeography, geology, and climatology)
- Sociological Ethnography (includes psycho-sociology of economics, political power, ethnic coherence/defection, and historical narrative memorialization)
- Cultural research into Indigenous Systems of Conflict Resolution & Mediation
- Clinical Research & Development products include Psycho-biographies of key conflict leaders and Psycho-historiographies of conflict communities
- Psychosocial Profiling of Suicide Attackers: psychological and emotional devolution pathways followed by development & fielding of disruption techniques
