"Giving people who lost their humanity, people were reduced to nothing, giving them their dignity back … Psychologists can’t do that alone. We need responses at state and international level. We need the rest of the world to stand with us.”
Dr Samah Jabr, Head of the PHA mental health unit.
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‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma | Gaza | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/14/mental-health-palestine-children?CMP=GTUK_email

‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma

Chair of the Palestinian ministry of health’s mental health unit says the clinical definition of PTSD does not fit the reality in Gaza

^{Bethan McKernan (The Guardian)}