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| Permalink View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H4) on 7/29/11: Sept. 11 Revealed Psychology's Limits, Review Finds Quicklink submitted by Rob Kall (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| Experts greatly overestimated the number of people in New York who would suffer lasting emotional distress. Therapists rushed in to soothe victims using methods that later proved to be harmful to some. And they fell to arguing over whether watching an event on television could produce the same kind of traumatic reaction as actually being there. These and other stumbles have changed the way mental health workers respond to traumatic events, said Roxane Cohen Silver, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, who oversaw the special issue along with editors at the journal. |
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