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Multiple Traumas & Katrina
THURSDAY, Sept. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Faced with the enormity of their losses, many survivors of Hurricane Katrina are experiencing depths of emotional trauma that even specialists barely understand.
Not only did many victims lose their homes and family members, but countless numbers were literally cast adrift for days with little or no help from society. Psychologists simply haven't spent much time studying this kind of devastating multiple blow, said Mary Ann Dutton, a professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University.
"One kind of traumatic experience piled on another makes for more complicated effects," Dutton explained. "Most of our research is focused on a single kind of trauma."
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