I originally delivered this piece a few years ago during a disaster mental health training conducted by Disaster Psychiatry Outreach. I want to share it here. Disaster work has many dimensions, layer ...

See the text below that I read earlier this morning. Most of this is on the money in my book. I'm reading American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 by James M Kendra and Tricia ...

I’ve been thinking about the meaning of disaster. As I write this the reports of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan are flooding the news (an admittedly unfortunate metaphor). I woke up to the news ...

LOS ANGELES -- Before, musicians produced a "sonic tsunami," Wall Street analysts foresaw "tsunamis" of bad earnings news and Japanese restaurants served "tsunami" sushi rolls. The word was used in ...