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Orkideh Behrouzan
- Nov 16, 2019
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New TEDx Talk: Rethinking Mental Health and the Afterlife of War

Our December 2018 TEDx talk at London's TEDxUCLWomen DISRUPT is now online!

“Dr Orkideh Behrouzan is a physician, medical anthropologist, anthropologist of science and technology, author of Prozak Diaries, as well as a poet and storyteller. In this insightful and awe-inspiring talk, Orkideh looks at memories of childhood and war to disrupt how we conventionally think about mental health, the Middle East, and the relationship between individual and collective memories.”

TEDxUCLWomen, Dec 1st 2018, Bush House, London

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