Therapy After Terror examines the 2001 World Trade Center attack from the perspectives of New York City mental health professionals who treated the psychologically wounded following the attack‎.‎ Therapists discuss the attack‎'‎s effects on their patients‎,‎ its personal and professional consequences for them‎,‎ and the ways it challenged fundamental aspects of clinical theory and practice‎.‎ The book describes crisis mental health services that were established after the attack‎,‎ as well as longer‎-term treatments‎.‎ It also examines notions of trauma‎,‎ diagnostic procedures‎,‎ and the politics of psychological treatment‎.‎