Limbo Life: refugees who flee torture
originally published:
21st August 2009
A former Harley Street psychotherapist told a Town Hall meeting how he gave up a lucrative private practice to work with desperate asylum seekers.
Mark Fish is now director of Angel-based charity Room2Heal, which provides psychotherapy for refugees who come to Britain seeking sanctuary. He described the plight of those who flee the threat of torture or murder but often end up being refused asylum and living for years in “limbo” on “the edge of society”.
Mr Fish, and Charlotte Lock from Finsbury Park-based Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture, were invited to talk about their work by Islington Mayor Anna Berent.
The Lib Dem councillor will be raising funds for both charities during her year of office. She revealed that the other 32 London mayors are being invited to visit Islington’s professional theatres on October 14 as part of a fundraising appeal.
Mr Fish described how he gave up his mainstream work in 2001 after realising there was something missing from his life.
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