The traumatic effect of mass communication in the Mexico city earthquake: crisis intervention and preventitive measures.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1986Description: 14p., 31 refsSubject: For purposes of this report, victims are considered to be those who suffered personal injuries and/or loss of close family members or more distant relatives and who were either direct witnesses of their deaths or were separated from their families when the disaster struck. Also included in this category are those who suffered property losses and will be unable, due to their financial situation, to recuperate these losses. A number of events coincided to produce an enormous psychological impact. The main traumatic agent was the mass communications media. Other factors, such as poorly understood pre-traumatic influence of overcrowding, high levels of noise, contaminated atmosphere, ecological destruction acting upon the ego capacity to cope with the overflow of stimulation, could be considered as contributing to aetiological factors.
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Reprinted from International Review of Psycho-Analysis; 1986; Vol 13; pp279-293
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For purposes of this report, victims are considered to be those who suffered personal injuries and/or loss of close family members or more distant relatives and who were either direct witnesses of their deaths or were separated from their families when the disaster struck. Also included in this category are those who suffered property losses and will be unable, due to their financial situation, to recuperate these losses. A number of events coincided to produce an enormous psychological impact. The main traumatic agent was the mass communications media. Other factors, such as poorly understood pre-traumatic influence of overcrowding, high levels of noise, contaminated atmosphere, ecological destruction acting upon the ego capacity to cope with the overflow of stimulation, could be considered as contributing to aetiological factors.
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