It is not shared history withpatients, but rather variety and quality of experience that determine how successful psychotherapistscan be.

Review of Private Matters, by Janna Malamud Smith.

Althoughpost-traumatic stress disorder may notbe thatwidespread, debate has been renewed with an eye toward helping soldiers from Iraq reintegrate into civilian society.

Review of The Empress Of Splendid Season, by Oscar Hijuelos.

The secular, pro-American autocratic political cultures that have defined much of the Middle East are dying, if not dead, and the United States would do well not to pretend otherwise.

Richard J. McNally's Remembering Trauma is a powerful counterweight to literature that is often sloppy and to a field that is too often susceptible to the promptings of politics and culture.

A lesson from 9/11 is that therapists must find a balance between letting people know help is available and suggesting that they need help when they do not.