9/11 Mental health in the wake of terrorist attacks

Edited by Yuval Neria, Ezra Gross, Randall Marshall. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, £60.00 (hardcover), pp 630. ISBN 0521831911 This book comprehensively describes the psychological response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and, to a lesser degree, Washington DC. The impact of what happened on the local and US national population is considered through various epidemiological studies, as well as personal accounts from some of those more directly involved. These complement each other well and highlight the fact that some individuals developed marked psychological difficulties as a result of the attacks but the majority of those …