Hannah Zeavin, "The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy" (MIT Press, 2021)
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The Story of the First Us. Hot Line
The story of the first American hot line is that, to say that people had experimented with dial in help. But never a formalized hot line. And an the operator of the first us. Hot line, aguy named bernard mays, who actuallyhe died right as i start to write this book,. and so i didn't get to speak with him; he later became chairman of npr. The hotline was really doing something very powerful because it used only pure care from every single volunteer. It was trained on getting rid of bias, explicitly or implicitly. Am I? by Arwaitsi Kisman (Simon & Schuster), $16.99 (£12)
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