Moscow, Bali, 9/11. The world is full of new horrors and there’s no place to hide. We all now face the kind of psychological trauma that was once wrought only by the worst natural calamities.
Who says so? Disaster psychologists, for a start. They are the folk who take in the big picture of our collective reactions to human-created disaster, the ways these reactions are caused, and our coping mechanisms. And research research into disaster psychology is growing fast: only last month the National Center on Disaster Psychology and Terrorism was set up in Palo Alto, California.
Among the big…
