Family and character change at Buffalo Creek.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: MAR 1976Description: 5 pSubject: Psychiatric evaluation teams used observations of family interaction and psychoanalytically oriented individual interviews to study the psychological aftereffects of the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster, a tidal wave of sludge and black water released by the collapse of a slag waste dam. The methods used by the survivors to cope with the overwhelming impact of the disaster-firstorder defenses, undoing, psychological conservatism, and dehumanization, actually preserved their symptoms and caused disabling character changes.
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Includes bibliographical references
Reprinted from American Journal of Psychiatry; March 1976; Vol. 133, no. 3; p. 295-299
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Psychiatric evaluation teams used observations of family interaction and psychoanalytically oriented individual interviews to study the psychological aftereffects of the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster, a tidal wave of sludge and black water released by the collapse of a slag waste dam. The methods used by the survivors to cope with the overwhelming impact of the disaster-firstorder defenses, undoing, psychological conservatism, and dehumanization, actually preserved their symptoms and caused disabling character changes.
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