H.D.S. Greenway
NATIONS, ethnic groups, and individuals can find the road to compromise and accommodation blocked by "a chosen trauma" -- a fixation on particular grievances that makes it impossible to see another point of view. Groups can "seize upon a wrong to the exclusion of any wrongs committed by themselves," is the way Vamik Volkan, political psychiatrist at the University of ... (Full article: 735 words)
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