Religious Extremism and the Image of God: Algebra and Psychoanalysis

To effectively resist religious extremism, it is important to know how the image of God in the view of those supporting radical organizations differs from the ideas of ordinary people. Psychognosis of the people imprisoned for staging (preparation) of acts of terror, does not resolve this task in full and does not give and opportunity to carry on timely monitoring of risk groups. Such work implies survey of the members of nationalist public organizations of the Southern Urals (18 people). The respondents did the Lüscher color test for Self, the Enemy, and Deus. The test results were processed using abstract algebra tools. It is shown that the subjects with extremist mindsets reduce the distance between the evaluation of self and Deus, at the same time increasing the distance to the image of Deus. The indirect answers method can be also used in the practice of family consulting, aid to children who suffered violence, in the personnel control system and sports psychotherapy.