New Delhi, May 16 -- As India and Pakistan emerge from yet another militarised confrontation, with communal tempers inflamed and political rhetoric boiling over, amplified by media and social media, could unhealed trauma on either side be driving the aggression?

This question arose at a groundbreaking seminar on Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma, organised by SAPNA, the newly formed South Asian Psychology and Neuroscience Association. Held in the Boston area at the prestigious MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, moving and thought-provoking discussions at SAPNA's inaugural event on May 3 cut through the noise of nationalistic bluster and media frenzy dominating public discourse at the time.

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