The Turkish Genocide of the Armenians

Abstract

This chapter will introduce to the psychological literature a traumatized group that is little known, although its story is 80 years old. When this group, the Armenians, first emerged from its catastrophic trauma after World War I, psychology was in its infancy. Moreover, there was no impetus for collecting this group's personal data, in contrast to the reparations requirements that produced much of the early literature on Holocaust survivors.