Rethinking Identity Fusion

Metodi Siromahov is a social psychologist and a Lecturer at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, UK. His academic interests are in the areas of ideology, group identity, and nationalism.Annie Hata holds a BSc in Psychology from UCL and is currently undertaking an MSc in Developmental Psychology and Clinical Practice at the Anna Freud Center in collaboration with UCL, UK. Her interests lie in community psychology and the intersections between social and clinical psychology in the context of race and identity. She was responsible for conducting the literature review on Identity Fusion Theory in her role as Research Assistant.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: What is Identity Fusion?.- Chapter 3: Fusion Theory’s Hard Cognitivism.- Chapter 4: Methodological Shortcomings.- Chapter 5: The Discursive Alternative to Cognitivism.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.