November 13th: "A collective trauma of an unprecedented kind"

November 13: "A collective trauma of an unprecedented kind"

November 9, 2025

By Marie Parra THE Subscribers

Ten years ago, Paris experienced some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in European history: 131 dead, 413 physically injured, and nearly 1,300 psychologically traumatized. Jacques Dayan, co-director of the November 13th program, presents an initial assessment of this series of studies on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Jacques Dayan

Jacques Dayan

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This article is taken from the monthly magazine Sciences et Avenir n°945, dated November 2025.

Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, Jacques Dayan is involved in the Care-13-11 study of the November 13th program which explores the transmission of trauma.

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