PTSD, the Armenian earthquake, and Primo Levi

✍ Scribed by Thomas Greening

• Book ID: 102445726
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490030410

✦ Synopsis

This is a postscript to my paper "PTSD from the Perspective of Existential-Humanistic Psychology" (Greening, 1990). Two further examples have come to my attention that illustrate the role of on-going existential factors in the prolongation of post-traumatic stress.

A Soviet psychologist, Fyodor Konkov (1989a,b) has written about the effects of the following Armenian family values, culture, and political context upon the stress reactions of Yerevan children and their parents after the 1988 earthquake:

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