Quotes from Robert Kenny

As Kai Erikson has put it, traumatised people 'may be said to have experienced not only a) a changed sense of self and b) a changed way of relating to others but c) a changed world view altogether'. In that first

Kai Erikson has suggested that the idea that disasters bring communities together is very often far from true: 'for the most part . . . trauma damages the texture of community' for it often 'forces open whatever fault lines once ran silently through the structure of the larger community'.