Sep 3, 2026 · 34 min · 14 segments
As the world approaches the 25th anniversary of September 11th, 2001, our show examines what happened that day, and the psychological impact that followed—along with the lessons we’ve learned about…
Craig KatzGuest
Stephen CalabriaHost
The World Trade Center program demonstrates something counterintuitive about trauma.

Why can psychological consequences emerge or become clinically significant long after the original event? And what should people understand about delayed trauma? Well, I

The distress may have been active and manifesting itself, but people overlook it.

So there is that element of it that the person's feeling it, but they're not doing anything about it.

So there's that part of it where it just takes people a long time to come around to the idea of getting help.

It sounds like a cliche, but people's minds do have the ability to just shut it out.

For example, and actually the simplest example I can give is not about 9-11, but it's about my daughter.

When she was two or three years old, she went into bed and we pulled the cover back and there was a mouse under there.

When she finally went to kindergarten a couple of years later, she was very upset about going to school.

The World Trade Center program demonstrates something counterintuitive about trauma.

Why can psychological consequences emerge or become clinically significant long after the original event? And what should people understand about delayed trauma? Well, I

The distress may have been active and manifesting itself, but people overlook it.

So there is that element of it that the person's feeling it, but they're not doing anything about it.

So there's that part of it where it just takes people a long time to come around to the idea of getting help.

It sounds like a cliche, but people's minds do have the ability to just shut it out.

For example, and actually the simplest example I can give is not about 9-11, but it's about my daughter.

When she was two or three years old, she went into bed and we pulled the cover back and there was a mouse under there.

When she finally went to kindergarten a couple of years later, she was very upset about going to school.
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