The Trauma of Terrorism

Abstract

* About the Contributors * Acknowledgments * FOREWORD * Terrorism: The United Nations and the Search for Shared Solutions (David Malone) * INTRODUCTION * The Trauma of Terrorism: Contextual Considerations (Yael Danieli, Danny Brom, and Joe Sills) * SECTION I: THE ORIGINS OF TERRORISM IN MODERN SOCIETY * The Origins and Nature of Terrorism: Foundations and Issues (Anthony J. Marsella and Fathali M. Moghaddam) * Terrorism as a Strategy of Psychological Warfare (Boaz Ganor) * Tales from the Underground (Gerald Cromer) * Aum Shinrikyo: The Threshold Crossed (Robert Jay Lifton) * Voice: Murdered Twin Buddhas and Annihilated Twin Towers: Traumatized Civilization (Hirad Abtahi) * Tactical and Strategic Terrorism (Giandomenico Picco) * Voice: Do They Kill for Their Mothers? (Joyce M. Davis) * Voice: Palestinian Voices * Voice: Remembrance Day/Independence Day (Martin Herskovitz) * Voice: Terrorism Poem * SECTION II: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TERRORISM * Adults in the United States * Voice: Grounded on Sept. 11 (David Handschuh) * Psychological Impact of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: Summary of Empirical Findings in Adults (William E. Schlenger) * Television Watching and Mental Health in the General Population of New York City After September 11 (Jennifer Ahern, Sandro Galea, Heidi Resnick, and David Vlahov) * Voice: Too Close to Ever Forget (Adam Lisberg) * Exploring the Myths of Coping with a National Trauma: A Longitudinal Study of Responses to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks (Roxane Cohen Silver, Michael Poulin, E. Alison Holman, Daniel N. McIntosh, Virginia Gil-Rivas, and Judith Pizarro) * Somatization and Terrorism (Carol S. North) * FINDINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD * Short- and Long-Term Effects of Terrorist Attacks in Spain (Enrique Baca, Enrique Baca-Garcia, Maria Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, and Maria Luisa Cabanas) * Voice: Spain: The ETA Enigma (Al Goodman) * Northern Ireland: The Psychological Impact of "The Troubles" (Andrea Campbell, Ed Cairns, and John Mallett) * Voice: Brave Little Man (Tony Maddox) * Voice: "So What Is It Like Now That Your Country Is Run by a Terrorist?" (Brandon Hamber) * The Long-Term Effects of Terrorism in France (Louis Jehel and Alain Brunet) * Psychological Effects of Terrorist Attacks in Algeria (Noureddine Khaled) * Voice: Nadia, a Victim/Survivor of a Terrorist Massacre of Her Family in Algeria (Noureddine Khaled) * Short- and Long-Term Effects on the Victims of Terror in Sri Lanka (Daya Somasundaram) * Voice: Sri Lanka: The Destruction of South Asia's Most Developed Society (Barbara Crossette) * Observations on the Impact on Kenyans of the August 7, 1998 Bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi (Samuel B. Thielman) * Voice: We Are Asked to Do Anything and Everything Except Be Victims (Lee Ann Ross) * Terror and Trauma in Bali: Australia's Mental Health Disaster Response (Beverley Raphael, Julie Dunsmore, and Sally Wooding) * Voice: Memories of Bali (Alan Atkinson) * Voice: A Baptism of Fire in Bali (Bill McNeil) * International Findings on the Impact of Terrorism (Brian Engdahl) * Traumatic Loss, Complicated Grief, and Terrorism (Ilona L. Pivar and Holly G. Prigerson) * Voice: Theo Was on Pan Am 103 (Susan Cohen and Daniel Cohen) * Voice: When You Are Alone, It Is Different (Conny Mus) * The Psychological Burden of Bioterrorism (Molly J. Hall, Ann E. Norwood, Carol S. Fullerton, Robert Gifford, and Robert J. Ursano) * CHILDREN * Psychological Impact of Terrorism on Children and Families in the United States (Betty J.