Video: “Nursing the Nightmares”

Guardian Video.

A female psychotherapist in Gaza, Insherrah Zakout, helps women try to free themselves of the trauma they suffer from as a result of the wars in Gaza.

I think that this an aspect of war that a lot of people don’t think about–the fact that the brave men, women, and children in Gaza are going to be living with the memory of the massacres, the trauma of losing their loved ones, for the rest of their lives. There is nothing that can make up for what these people have lost.

 I remember from the summer I spent in the refugee camps in Jordan that many of the women in the camp wished they had psychotherapists in the camp. They needed someone to relay their problems to, to help them deal with the poverty, sickness, and alienation that came along with their dispossession.

If there was such a high demand for therapy in Jordan, where the Palestinian people have led mostly stable lives, one can only imagine how much psychotherapy is needed in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

Insherra Zakout is one of a few psychotherapists in Gaza. God bless her.

~ by nollla on March 10, 2009.