TY - JOUR A1 - Aramoni, Rebeca T1 - The vacuum of kidnapping JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 1, 2019), pp. 031-033. N2 - 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?< Y1 - 2019 ER -