Earthquakes and Traumatic Stress

Ōdaira, Tsunemoto; T, Iwadate; Raphael, Beverley

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“…Diagnostic precision and cross-cultural methodology notwithstanding, a number of recent studies have demonstrated profound posttraumatic psychiatric sequelae among non-Westernized individuals such as Southeast Asian refugees (Kinzie, 1993); Sri Lankans exposed to civil war (Somasundaram, 1993); civilian survivors of the war in Afghanistan (Wardak, 1993); cyclone survivors in Fiji and Sri Lanka (Fairley, 1984;Patrick & Patrick, 1981); earthquake victims in Mexico, Ecuador, Japan, and China (Conyer, Amor, Medina-Mara, Caraveo, & De la Fuentes, 1987; Lima, et. al., 1989;McFarlane & Hua, 1993;Odaira, Iwadate, & Raphael, 1993); volcano survivors in Colombia (Lima, Pai, Santacruz, Lozano, & Luna, 1987); and political torture detainees in South Africa (Simpson, 1993).…”

Section: Ethnocultural Aspects Of Ptsdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Posttraumatic stress disorder: An overview of the concept.

Friedman¹,

Marsella²

1996

Ethnocultural Aspects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues, Research, and Clinical Applications.

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He tried to make love to her. . . . until he was defeated by sadness, or shame, and pushed her away. . . . But darkness was not good; he needed the rectangle of light from the street, because without it he felt trapped again in the abyss of the timeless ninety centimeters of his cell, fermenting in his own excrement, delirious . . . he knew that he was coming apart, as he had so often before, and he gave up the struggle, releasing his last hold on the present, letting himself plunge down the endless precipice. He felt the crusted straps on his ankles and wrists, the brutal charge, the torn tendons, the insulting voices demanding names, the unforgettable screams of Ana, tortured beside him, and of the others, hanging by their arms in the courtyard.From "Our Secret," by Isabelle AllendeWhen he came home [from Vietnam] though, Henry was very different, and I'll say this: the change was no good. You could hardly expect him to change for the better, I know. But he was quiet, so quiet, and never comfortable sitting still anywhere but always up and moving around. . . . now you couldn't get him to laugh, or when he did it was more the sound of a man choking, a sound that stopped up the throats of other people around him. They got to leaving him alone most of the time, and I didn't blame them. It was a fact: Henry was jumpy and mean.From "The Red Convertible," by Louise Erdrich THE PTSD CONCEPTExposure to trauma has been a risk of the human experience throughout human history. Emotional reactions to extreme stress have been noted by historians and literary authors for 4,000 years (e.g., Figley, 1993;Veith, 1965 ). Homer's Ulysses (and probably Achilles) and Shakespeare's Henry I I

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Section: Ethnocultural Aspects Of Ptsdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Posttraumatic stress disorder: An overview of the concept.

Friedman¹,

Marsella²

1996

Ethnocultural Aspects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues, Research, and Clinical Applications.

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Human Responses to Extreme Stress

Thompson¹

1995

Journal of Japan Society of Information and Knowledge

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The topic of risk perception is discussed in relation to data obtained from Japanese students, who appear to have a highly vigilant approach to life's dangers and to welcome warnings, but at the same time have a somewhat fatalistic attitude to their own lives. After an overview of conceptual issues regarding stress and disasters including eanhquakes, examples of human responses to massive stress are presented in the cases of an Underground railway fire, an aeroplane hljacking, a ferTy boat sinking and a terrorist bomb explosion on a city street. Data are also presented on the coping strategies which people use to attempt to process traumatic events, and therapeutic outcomes from controlled treatrnent trials.

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Earthquakes and Traumatic Stress

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Posttraumatic stress disorder: An overview of the concept.

Posttraumatic stress disorder: An overview of the concept.

Human Responses to Extreme Stress

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