The psychiatric aspects of terrorism: Prevention and rehabilitation.

Domestic terrorism with chemical or biological agents: psychiatric aspects.

OBJECTIVE This article highlights the mental health consequences of a domestic terrorist incident involving chemical or biological weapons. METHOD The author reviews the literature on the neuropsychiatric effects of selected chemical and biological weapon agents, on the psychological sequelae of mass disasters, and on approaches to crisis intervention. RESULTS Disturbances of behavior, affe...

Psychiatric Aspects of the Prevention of Nuclear War

Th ' fhey maintain, not violence, which is inherent in the human condition. )afhe nate ls still a widespread conviction that war derives straight and inexorably from ^tUani re.0^ man, and the idea of war is still saddled with anachronistic stereotypes fet n. , Vlrtue, self-sacrifice for home and family, glory, courage, initiative and so on. l?t ev ar War is not any kind of "adaptive solution to...

Terrorism: causes and prevention.

Injury prevention and terrorism.

I am simply not smart enough to be able to add anything sensible or profound to what so many others have written on this topic. After 9/11 I offered some thoughts on the immense challenge that preventing terrorist acts entails. No one wrote to agree or disagree so I concluded that either my suggestions were too controversial or too mundane. On this occasion, roughly one month after the London b...

Terrorism: behavior defies psychiatric diagnosis.