ABSTRACT

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.

part I|47 pages

Threat

chapter 1|222 pages

Who worries about remote dangers?

chapter 2|6 pages

Visions of panic and madness

chapter 3|209 pages

Denial of imminent threat

chapter 4|8 pages

Precautions and propitiation

chapter 5|5 pages

Experience and expectations

chapter 6|3 pages

Danger shared

part II|180 pages

Impact

chapter 1|6 pages

The illusion of centrality

chapter 2|8 pages

The feeling of abandonment

chapter 3|11 pages

Near- and remote-miss

chapter 4|8 pages

The disaster syndrome

chapter 5|5 pages

Panic

chapter 6|13 pages

Egoism and altruism

chapter 7|124 pages

Activity and emotion

part III|99 pages

Aftermath

chapter 1|15 pages

The tormenting memory

chapter 2|79 pages

The fear of recurrence

chapter 3|10 pages

The place where it happened

chapter 4|8 pages

Property as payment for life

chapter 5|50 pages

We were lucky

chapter 7|33 pages

Relations to the powers that be