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THE GRIEF INDUSTRY.(dispute over the benefits of critical-incident stress debriefing)

The New Yorker

| January 26, 2004 | Groopman, Jerome | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Soon after the collapse of the World Trade Center, experts predicted that one out of five New Yorkers--some one and a half million people--would be traumatized by the tragedy and require psychological care. Within weeks, several thousand grief and crisis counsellors arrived in the city. Some were dispatched by charitable and religious organizations; many others worked for private companies that provide services to businesses following catastrophes.

In the United States, grief and crisis counsellors generally use a method called critical-incident stress debriefing, which was created, in 1974, by Jeffrey T. Mitchell, a Maryland paramedic who was studying for a ...

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