Psychological terrorism as a means to achieve political goals
Throughout its existence, humanity has faced various manifestations of terrorism, among which the most” non-lethal”, but no less dangerous, is psychological terrorism. As an independent type of extremism, it can take a variety of forms and be expressed in direct psychotronic influence on the human body in order to encourage it to certain specified actions; suggestion through psychological manipulation of the consciousness of both an individual and mass communities with the use of appropriate ideological state propaganda.The article is devoted to the study of the mechanisms of manifestation of the main types of psychological terrorism from the “soft” gradual suggestion of “ set “values to the “hard” psychological suppression of the individual. The author studies the methods of psychological influence used by various organizations from religious sects to state structures in historical retrospect, during periods of overt or covert political confrontations.