Disaster

This is Volume II out of eighteen on a series of the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1957, this study is a psychological essay and is the result of a study undertaken for the Committee on disaster Studies of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. Introduction PART I: TREAT 1. Who worries about remote danger? 2. Visions of panic and madness 3. Denial of imminent threat 4. Precautions and propitiation 5. Experience and expectations 6. Danger shared PART II: IMPACT 1. The illusion of centrality 2. The·feeling of abandonment 3. Near- and remote·miss 4. The disaster syndrome 5. Panic 6. Egoism and altruism 7. Activity and emotion PART III: AFTERMATH 1. The tormenting memory 2. The fear of recurrence 3. The place where it happened 4. Property as payment for Iife 5. We were lucky.6. The rise and fall of the post-disaster utopia 7. Relations to the powers that be