This volume broadens the scope of Trauma and Disaster: The Structure of Human Chaos to include an expanded focus on a special type of disaster, terrorism. Terrorism seeks to achieve political, ideological, or theological goals through a threat or action that creates extreme fear or believe that terrorism (and torture) produce the highest rates of psychiatric sequelae amongst all types of disasters. The Tokyo sarin attack, the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon andWorld Trade Center, and the anthrax letters have raised the specter of unconventional weapons (chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, and high-yield explosives: known as CBRNE) and the employment of the familiar such as airliners in novel.
