Can we be traumatized from a distance? Bruno Boniface, psychiatrist specializing in psychotraumatology, explains the causes of a sometimes morbid fascination and gives the keys to guarding against it. The greater the geographical proximity of the tragedy, the more we sympathize, we readily think.
With social networks, we scroll from morning to evening, coming from eastern Europe or the tip of Gaza, heartbreaking testimonies, images of corpses in hospitals, boned buildings, photos taken from fist, shared en masse.