Catastrophe!

What Happens To Our Minds During Pandemics Natural Disasters Terrorist Attacks and Other Extreme Calamities? Whether natural or man-made local or global disasters impact our thinking and behavior on both a personal and societal level. Even rather ordinary crises in our personal lives like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship trigger overwhelming feelings. At the societal level group anxieties coupled with the moral pressure to conform can send us all down the path to ruin. Why does this happen and through understanding human psychology how can we prevent this in the future? In this highly original and engagingly written book Author Christopher J. Ferguson examines how pandemics natural disasters terrorist attacks and other events of mass hysteria impact our psychology and prevent us from adequately responding to preventing or learning from those calamities.