opinion
EYES FOR EYES
Israel is exacting brutal vengeance on innocent people for Hamas’ crimes. But pursuing a lasting peace is the only way to defeat their enemy.
Nina E. Cerfolio MD, is Assistant Clinical Professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and an internationally-recognized expert on trauma/terrorism and award-winning psychiatrist/psychoanalyst. Through writing, speaking, and original research, Nina offers a spiritual path of healing to transform the pain of terror into interconnectedness, and elucidates an expansive understanding of the marginalized. Her thought-provoking new book, Psychoanalytic and Spiritual Perspectives on Terrorism: Desire for Destruction (Routledge, Dec. 2023), weaves her team’s cutting edge research on mass shootings with her extraordinary first-hand experiences of being a first responder to explore a more expansive understanding of the origins of terrorism while highlighting an overlooked spiritual lens as a powerful antidote for healing from trauma.