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Mourning and Adaptation after a War

This paper offers a study of the ways in which a war and its consequences affect psychologically those on the victorious side. The subjects of my study are the Turks of Cyprus; I will report on the psychological processes dominant among them—their attempts at mourning to achieve a new adaptation—during the year after the Turkish occupation of the northern part of the island in the summer of 1974.

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