🔗 Mohamed Fakhr El-Islam, MD
Biography of Dr Fakhr el-Islam
Biography of Dr Fakhr el-Islam
In an influential book, he defied the idea that being gay, as he was, is an illness, and took on psychiatry’s “history of homophobia.” He died of the coronavirus.
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Did you know Virginia Woolf's niece was a psychiatrist?
Palestinian psychiatrist Dr. Ayad el-Sarraj founder of the Gaza Mental Health Program won the Olof Palme Prize http://is.gd/khMCb /via @IRCT
From 1965 to 1973, when the Arab-Israeli conflict was at its peak in Egypt, he worked in psychiatry in military hospitals, serving at front line posts in Sinai and producing a thesis on the effects of the stress of military service on young men.
nicely put and in a positive way. But what about prevalence of mental illness in other professions? And what about the percentage of orthopedics (for example) who had a broken bone before getting into it ?!