Hurricane

The Seba library treats Hurricane in 4 passages, across 3 authors (including Bly, Robert, Shapiro, Francine, Pargament, Kenneth I).

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Fourth, apprenticeship to a hurricane energy such as the Wild Man, or the Warrior, or Dionysus, or Apollo. When he has done well, the Jung man receives a drink from the waters of the god.

Bly identifies 'hurricane energy' as the fourth stage of masculine initiation, naming it a numinous archetypal force to which the young man must apprentice himself rather than merely survive.

Bly, Robert, Iron John: A Book About Men, 1990thesis

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This study evaluated the effects of three sessions of EMDR using a lagged-groups design with children suffering the aftereffects of Hurricane Iniki. Thirty-two children who had not responded to previous treatments and who met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD were randomly assigned.

Shapiro cites the Hurricane Iniki study as a landmark controlled trial demonstrating EMDR's efficacy for PTSD in child survivors of a named catastrophic weather event.

Shapiro, Francine, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, 2001thesis

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322 survivors of Hurricane Iniki 7 weeks after hurricane — Religious coping associated with more psychological symptoms (r =.22).

Pargament reports that among Hurricane Iniki survivors, religious coping was paradoxically correlated with elevated psychological symptoms, complicating the assumption that religion straightforwardly buffers disaster trauma.

Pargament, Kenneth I, The psychology of religion and coping theory, research,, 2001supporting

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322 survivors of Hurricane Iniki — Religious coping was tied to female status. No relation to age, marital status, income, or education.

This entry situates Hurricane Iniki survivorship within a demographic analysis of religious coping, finding gender as the sole significant predictor of turning to religion in the aftermath of the disaster.

Pargament, Kenneth I, The psychology of religion and coping theory, research,, 2001supporting

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