Our study panel began deliberations with significantly divergent views on the meaning of the concept of “psychological consequences” and the definition of terrorism. In addition we had many perspectives on the appropriate preventive and therapeutic roles of public health and mental health systems with respect to the psychological consequences of terrorism. We agreed that terrorism affected humans in all walks of life and that societal terrorists are as diverse as the individuals they terrorize in society. We reflected on those in the inner city where chronic violence is rampant, those attacked by Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City, and those who died in the Al-Qaeda World Trade Center attack. We.
