The 15 articles comprising this nicely edited volume were delivered
at a symposium of the AAAS in 1962 devoted to the analysis of
psychological stress precipitated by the threat of impending
disaster. Disaster is defined in the naturalistic sense of great
upheavals of wind, earth, and water, nuclear attack or threat,
strange environments of space, captivity and military occupation
and disease or death. The writers are psychiatrists, psychologists,
and sociologists whose reports are clearly written accounts of the
precipitating events, and the behavioral and psychological
reactions they produced.... The result is a book of wide general
interest to both professional and layman.
*Choice*
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