Martha Wolfenstein

Disaster

A Psychological Essay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780415868662
• ISBN-10: 0415868661
• Artikelnr.: 37335330

Inhaltsangabe

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