“My government did this,” reads a message on a wall, with the devastated Beirut Port — destroyed by the double explosion of Aug. 4, 2020 — in the background. (Credit: Archive photo João Sousa/L’Orient Today)
On Aug. 4, 2020, the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosion rocked Beirut, killing more than 220 people, injuring over 6,000, devastating entire neighborhoods of the capital — and leaving thousands traumatized.Shortly after the blast, Zeina Zerbe, a clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and lecturer at Saint Joseph University (USJ), launched a research project titled “The Influence of a Perpetually Failing Politico-Security Environment on the Mental Health of Lebanese People Living in or Having Lived in Lebanon.” The study is expected to be published in full at the end of August.Adopted by the Human Rights Research League and supported by contributing researchers — including psychologists, a human rights expert and a statistical data analyst — the project was conducted under the scientific supervision of Garine...
On Aug. 4, 2020, the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosion rocked Beirut, killing more than 220 people, injuring over 6,000, devastating entire neighborhoods of the capital — and leaving thousands traumatized.Shortly after the blast, Zeina Zerbe, a clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and lecturer at Saint Joseph University (USJ), launched a research project titled “The Influence of a Perpetually Failing Politico-Security Environment on the Mental Health of Lebanese People Living in or Having Lived in Lebanon.” The study is expected to be published in full at the end of August.Adopted by the Human Rights Research League and supported by contributing researchers — including psychologists, a human rights expert and a statistical data analyst — the project was conducted under the scientific supervision of...
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