From couples to politics to global conflict, the same patterns can push people further apart. Psychotherapist Scott Gibbs explains what happens when fear, defensiveness and the need to be right takes over.
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- Scott Gibbs, psychotherapist, marriage therapist, author, Toward the Turning: Rethinking the Meaning of 9/11, the Clash of Civilizations, and a Postmodern World
Its now been twenty-five years since the September 11th terrorist attacks. On that day, nearly three thousand people lost their lives. For Gibbs, and many of us, remembering nine-eleven transports us back to where we were and what we were doing that day.
That focus continued into his graduate work and he wrote a paper examining why nine-eleven happened and the extremist islamic forces behind it. But Gibbs says even then, the explanation didn’t feel complete.
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