Thursday, October 31, 2019
How does the human soul survive atrocity?
After
the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis, many of them
children, are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the
world. Sumaya Ahmad, above, was about 16 when ISIS arrived in her
village. She was sold and sold again. “I thought it would never end,”
she said. “I thought about killing myself.” Now,
a program founded by a Kurdish psychologist from Germany aims to train
the first generation of psychotherapists in Iraq and eventually the
broader Middle East. Two journalists visited the program.
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