Mental disorders in their myriad forms have been well documented throughout history and are inextricably linked to the human condition—affecting young and old, male and female, the world over.

The Al-Kindi Teaching Hospital in Aleppo, where Dr. Fouad M. Fouad trained in surgery, now lies in ruin, an unfortunate casualty of a series of airstrikes that, over the past six years, partially or completely destroyed sixty of Syria’s hospitals.