Health Programs

Outsourcing Compassion--Part 2 

Sept 2005

By

Stephen Smith

When Herbert heard about throngs of therapists rushing to debrief New Yorkers after 9/11, he quickly organized 19 of the world's top researchers on trauma to publish a letter in the American Psychological Association's Monitor magazine. The letter began with the Latin words "Primum Non Nocere," the first tenet of medicine, "First, do no harm."

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