Silver School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY 10003, United States.
Disasters. 2011 Jan;35(1):143-59. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01197.x. Epub 2010 Aug 23.
Using the concept of ontological security, this paper examines the physical and psychological loss of home and community following Hurricane Katrina. This qualitative longitudinal study includes 40 heads of households with school-age children who lived in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Participants describe a breakdown in their social fabric at the individual and structural/community levels that contributes to a sense of community loss and social displacement, disrupting their ontological security--their notion of safety, routine and trust in a stable environment. Three interrelated reactions were common: 1) experiencing nostalgia for their old neighbourhoods specifically and New Orleans in general; 2) experiencing a sense of loss of people and things that represented a level of security or constancy; 3) initiation of a process for re-establishing ontological security whether or not they returned to New Orleans. The paper concludes that intangible losses have an important psychological effect on community redevelopment and recovery from trauma.
利用本体论安全的概念，本文考察了卡特里娜飓风后家庭和社区的身心损失。这项定性纵向研究包括 40 名有学龄儿童的户主，他们在卡特里娜飓风期间居住在新奥尔良。参与者描述了个人和结构/社区层面社会结构的崩溃，导致社区丧失感和社会流离失所，破坏了他们的本体论安全——他们对稳定环境中的安全、常规和信任的概念。有三种相互关联的反应很常见：1）对他们旧社区的怀念，特别是对新奥尔良的怀念；2）对代表某种安全或稳定性的人和物的丧失感；3）无论是否返回新奥尔良，重新建立本体论安全的过程的启动。本文的结论是，无形损失对社区重建和创伤后恢复具有重要的心理影响。
