Trauma and Change in America

In this radio interview I discuss my ideas about emotional trauma (RD Stolorow, Trauma and Human Existence, Routledge, 2007) and extend them to the collective trauma of 9/11 and the "portkeys" (a term borrowed from Harry Potter) that transport us back into that devastated state. Bush and now McCain and Palin have exploited these portkeys -- the specter of weapons of mass destruction, the "tribute" to 9/11 at the RNC, the smear of "palling around with domestic terrorists," the economic collapse -- for their own political aims.

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