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  1. Kai T. Erikson (professor of sociology and chairman)

    Present address: the University of Pittsburgh and Emory University, USA

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  1. the American Studies Program, Yale University, USA

    Kai T. Erikson (professor of sociology and chairman)

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Excerpted from Kai T. Erikson,Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood (New York: Simon & Schuster, forthcoming). Copyright © Simon & Schuster.

The conclusions expressed in this article are based on personal interviews with the flood’s survivors, legal depositions, psychiatric evaluations, letters from survivors to their attorneys, and answers to mail questionnaires developed and administered by the author. The excerpts have been presented without supporting documentation in the interests of space.

He is a former president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1970–71).

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Erikson, K.T. Trauma at Buffalo Creek. Soc 13, 58–65 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02802909

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