Dr. Patrick James Christian

Dr. Christian is a psychoanalytical anthropologist of violent ethnic and cultural conflict in Eurasia, South Asia, Middle East, Central and South America, West Africa, North Africa and the Horn of Africa. His principal 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; 

• 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

• Psychosocial Profiling of suicide attackers: psychological and emotional devolution

His areas of expertise include child abuse; sexual abuse/assault; gender-based violence/domestic violence; child soldiers; forced marriage; human trafficking; FGM/FGC; trafficking; forced conscription/refoulment; ex-combatant reintegration; likelihood of destitution or homelessness; land tenure disputes/issues; ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution;  risk of torture or political persecution; risk from state actors, risk from non-state actors; risk of retaliation; sufficiency of protection; possibility of safe internal relocation; healthcare access; health systems capacity; mental illness