ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a street cop, a psychologist, a poet, novelist, and a non-fiction writer who is skilled and trained in four therapies of value: psychoanalytic, rational emotive behavior/cognitive-behavioral therapy, logotherapy, and Rogerian therapy. It focuses on assessment and treatment of complex trauma, complicated grief, and dissociative disorder for the encyclopedic work as author necessitated a careful choice of a case to highlight the foundation of author theory and therapy approach. In police identity traumatic loss contributes to an expansive sense of lost-being in the survivor of trauma, which includes almost all officers. Often the stop gap of expression of loss in police and public safety is unacceptable in the alexithymic culture. Frankly speaking, terrorism is a human evil crime that attempts to dehumanize victims, survivors, and the military and public safety officers who combat it. On a micro-cultural dimension, adaptation within a military, police, or public safety unit is highly idiosyncratic.
