Recommended reading:

• Lena Meari: Reconsidering Trauma: Towards a Palestinian Community Psychology
• Samantha Lilly  How Trauma Theory is Oppressive in Occupied Palestine
• Layth Hanbali  Israeli violence is central to Palestine’s mental health crisis

Supplementary reading:

• Colonial Violence and Mental Disorders: an extract from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
• Jackie Menjivar  What does it mean to decolonize mental health?
• Holly Geraghty  The Gaza breakdancing crew helping children escape the trauma of war
• Zenobia Morrill  Critical Psychiatrists Argue for Decolonizing Medical Curricula in Psychiatry

Supplementary viewing:

• A Call for Healing: Gabor Maté on Palestine / Israel