Lynne Jones

Psychiatrist, aid worker and writer , UK and Harvard

Lynne Jones OBE is a British psychiatrist, aid worker and writer with experience in conflict and disaster settings. She is the author of Then They Started Shooting (2013). Her latest book is Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry (2017).

Written by Lynne Jones

A large encampment with numerous makeshift tents, shacks and people scattered around in an open area, viewed from above.

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Human rights and justice

An aid industry labouring under neocolonial structures is no help

Lynne Jones

Two men sitting at a table with drinks in a rustic setting, surrounded by exposed brick and stone walls.

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Mental health

Each scar is different

PTSD has come to signify the moral, social and political suffering of war. But not all suffering is a mental illness

Lynne Jones