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Abstract
This study examines the psychoanalytic material by five patients in the first two sessions after a community disaster. The patients got information about and experienced the disaster as members of their community but not directly as victims or as relatives of victims. The disaster they encountered was one and the same. The study uses session material to find out how the patients reacted to the disaster, the quality of their defensive maneuvres, the association of the disaster with each patient´s previous traumas and life events, and the change in the patient's speech as a result of the disaster. The study reveals both differences and similarities between individuals in the response to the disaster. The event was very quickly combined with the individual’s previous experiences from which it seeked associative similarity. An important finding is that significant novel material appeared in the sessions immediately following the disaster.