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Syria's Frontline Psychiatrist

Dr Roula counsels casualties of the Syrian conflict.

The physical wounds of war are obvious. But what about the mental scars left by violent conflict? No-one knows them better than the Syrian psychiatrist Dr Roula. She was the first woman director of Aleppo's state run psychiatric hospital - a job she took up in her mid thirties before the fighting broke out.

Image: Man sitting on a step in Aleppo, Syria
Credit: JIM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images

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