ABSTRACT
Chapter 20 of this book is written by Basma Abdelaziz. Abdelaziz is an award-winning writer, sculptor, and psychiatrist. She worked directly in the psychological management and rehabilitation of victims of torture and violence for more than 10 years in Egypt. The disaster that Abdelaziz takes the reader through is the 2013 Massacre at Rabaa Square in Egypt. The massacre was the result of civil demonstrations against from the military coup d’état against ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The reader is given a sense of the scaling priorities of survivors from the perspective of a DMH responder and also an appreciation of the widespread effects the massacre had on collective Egyptian psychology. The chapter ends with an encouragement of reconciliation amongst all parties involved.
