 | Baher Ibrahim PhD History Candidate - University of Glasgow History of Medecine |
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04.03.2019-29.03.2019
Uprooting, nostalgia, trauma and confinement: A history of refugee mental health concepts, treatments and practices from the 1940s-1980s
Baher Ibrahim is a doctoral researcher in history of medicine at the University of Glasgow, where he is recipient of an interdisciplinary PhD scholarship based at both the History Department, College of Arts and the Centre for the History of Medicine, College of Social Sciences. He received his medical degree from Alexandria University, Egypt, and has a MA in Community Psychology from the American University in Cairo and a MSc in Global Mental Health from King’s College London & the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Baher’s doctoral research is in refugee history and the history of psychiatry. Specifically, it looks at the history of the field of refugee mental health, as theorised, researched, and practiced by psychiatry and the mental health professions, with a focus on how mental health services have been conceptualised and delivered in refugee camps.
Baher Ibrahim is a doctoral researcher in history of medicine at the University of Glasgow, where he is recipient of an interdisciplinary PhD scholarship based at both the History Department, College of Arts and the Centre for the History of Medicine, College of Social Sciences. He received his medical degree from Alexandria University, Egypt, and has a MA in Community Psychology from the American University in Cairo and a MSc in Global Mental Health from King’s College London & the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Baher’s doctoral research is in refugee history and the history of psychiatry. Specifically, it looks at the history of the field of refugee mental health, as theorised, researched, and practiced by psychiatry and the mental health professions, with a focus on how mental health services have been conceptualised and delivered in refugee camps.
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