FEATURE/Sniper Attacks End But Psychological Message Remains, ``America Is a Dangerous Place''.News Editors FEATURE... LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2002 The sniper attacks have ceased but the psychological message remains, "America is a dangerous place," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a trauma psychologist who has been commenting on the psychological effects of the sniper shootings and other forms of terrorism since September 11th. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. psychologist, Robert R. Butterworth, Ph.D., feels that as a society we are now more vulnerable to any form of personal or organizational violence since we have not had time, in a psychological sense, to fully recover from the events of Sept. 11 and related terrorist threats. "It is not relevant in a psychological sense whether or not the sniper attacks are in reality connected to organized terror. Psychologically, anthrax anthrax (ăn`thrăks), acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis scares, terrorism alerts, sniper shootings and threats of future terrorism are taking its toll on the psychological heath of America's psyche -- anxiety and fear is predicated on the perception of reality rather than reality itself," says Butterworth who adds, "With all the talk of terrorist actions involving everything from biological agents to future bombings, it is no wonder that the fear of the future enhances the trauma and depression resulting from past events -- we remain prone to fear and anxiety as a nation. "Unlike past disasters, such as the bombing in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm or mass shootings in which we had a psychological recovery period in which things settled down and had time to catch our breath and mourn as a group -- we don't have time to decompress To restore compressed data back to its original size. (compression, data) decompress - To reverse the effects of data compression. . We're actually speeding up and getting ready for war -- we're too anxious even to be depressed," said the trauma expert. Dr. Butterworth Ph.D., who has been commenting on the psychological effects of the sniper shootings, is available to discuss the psychological anxiety on the nation, both short and long term psychological effects both in the target community and the entire nation. Within hours of the Sept. 11 disaster in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , trauma psychologist and media commentator Robert R. Butterworth, Ph.D., was giving ongoing psychological commentary to a traumatized nation. Butterworth was also commenting on the psychological aspects of the sniper attacks with a team of experts from late evening to early morning Thursday on MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company as the suspects were arrested. |
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