The Boston Marathon Bombing as a Collective Trauma
Robert D. Stolorow
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Posted 04.19.2013
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A tragedy like this brings us face-to-face with our existential vulnerabilities -- vulnerabilities to harm, death, and loss -- and the existential vulnerability of all those we love and, perhaps worst of all, the limitedness or our ability to protect them.
