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Volume 352:2263-2265 June 2, 2005 Number 22 Next

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Physicians have always been concerned with how people survive trauma. There has been much interest in the psychology of the survivors of such massive trauma as that inflicted by the Nazis in their death camps, by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and more recently, by the extraordinary earthquake and tsunami in South Asia.

Less noted has been the experience of Americans as survivors of violent collective trauma. We owe this lack of attention to the relative rarity of large-scale killing and dying on American soil and to the fact that in wars fought abroad, suffering has usually been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Lifton is a member of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and at the Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Mass.

An interview with Dr. Lifton can be heard at www.nejm.org.

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Americans as Survivors
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