Now, Haitian leaders seem at this crucial moment in history far less encumbered with the self-importance and pride that afflicts many national and, indeed, professional leaders I have known.

Already at 9am, the air is hot and heavy in the workshop tent. Fifty or sixty people are present, most of them quite young, taking notes, wonderfully ...

Originally posted on my blog, www.jamesgordonmd.com/healingourselves We move during the rest of our week in Haiti from one group of health profession...

In Port-au-Prince there are no fewer people living in tents or on the streets, but more of them seem out and about, vertical and animated -- selling and shopping

Narrative is a connective tissue made of memories and events, facts and fantasy, and a set of beliefs, which we use to form identity.

December 21, 1988, the day that Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, has been called "the day that the heart of Pan American died."

At the end of the third class, a quiet, solemn boy asks if he can speak with me. "What," he had wondered during class, "about memories of the lost per...

We keep our sessions as simple and clear as we can: an introduction to fight-or-flight, stress, and trauma, answers to their questions, and three less...

In this, the last blog of my series, I hope to leave my readers with more understanding of the possible impact of traumatic loss of a company like Pan Am on employees.

The problem is that cutting yourself is not a good long term solution for managing emotional pain. Here's are a few things to keep in mind if you know someone who is self-injuring:

There is an enormous need to help traumatized children in the second recovery phase of this disaster before rushing tto quickly to rebuild the external world.

There are six rows of cots, perhaps twenty cots in each. Children lie on them. White bandages capping the stumps left after amputations are visible. S...

Nicholas Kristof had an interesting column about liberals, conservatives, and brain wiring. Unfortunately, he misunderstands the idea of "hard wiring," taking this to mean that liberals and conservatives are "born that way."

Arrival in Port-au-Prince There is a weight to the air; we begin to feel it at the border where we enter from the Dominical Republic. We can smell it...

In Haiti three days of "memorializing the dead," of prayer and fasting have begun. We drive downtown, past blocks where some houses are still erect a...

It's all about reconciliation, which doesn't necessarily mean reconciling with the perpetrator. Reconciling with oneself, making peace with the event, is what allows people to live and find resolution.

Fasten your seatbelts: in this three-part series, I'm going to tell you the story of the rise and fall of Pan Am, and perhaps you will benefit from hearing about the painful impact of the fall on its employees and how we survived this trauma.

Sleep Machismo is bringing this country to its knees in terms of performance deficits at work and fueling the fire under the obesity pandemic we are now witnessing. We must all become sleep specialists.