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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:05:45 -0800
Mime-Version: 1.0 While looking in the New Yorker for a column about restrictions on journalism, I found this article: Annals of Medicine The Grief Industry: How much does crisis counselling help - or hurt? http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040126fa_fact It talks about "debriefing" after tragedies like the Sept. 11th attacks, the difficulties of measuring whether the debriefings are helpful, and dangers of false memories. The debriefing process sounds like it consists of each person telling his or her own story. What stood out for me was the sense that people need to set their own schedules and patterns for healing: one size doesn't fit all. Another was that lay persons often were less judgmental listeners. Michelle Howard, Portland OR ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||