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In this posthumous publication, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that a microcosm/macrocosm trend exists within human and social development. Since the First World War, society has been reeling from accumulative trauma that has many of the characteristics of individual accumulative trauma. Yet, there has been an international movement to heal and achieve coherence within enormous diversity in the name of the child since the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child.