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The nature of terrorist activity is such that it calculatedly and systematically fosters fear in the defenseless civilian population. Terrorists use noncombatant persons as targets and as a means of intensification of psychological demoralization in order to demonstrate their ability to strike at any place and at any time. The victim is not the real target, but the means toward a goal (); he is used as a form of blackmail and as a demonstration of destructive power. The arbitrary choice of victims means that almost anyone can become a target. In this way, terror transforms whole groups of the population into potential victims. The direct and indirect threats create a “traumatic situation” (Figley, 1978, 1985) necessitating therapeutic intervention to minimize the psychological damage done to the survivors.
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Ayalon, O. (1993). Posttraumatic Stress Recovery of Terrorist Survivors. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_72
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