‘I thought psychologists were for crazy people’: can therapy help refugees?

Their journeys over, many asylum seekers in Europe find themselves struggling with mental health problems. Seven people - and the therapists working with them - share their stories

For Muntaser, it's the memory of militiamen raiding his village in Darfur. For Ahmad, who fled Afghanistan as a child, it's the terrible vision of his father murdering his mother and sister. Abdul saw his home city devastated by Saudi bombs.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants have crossed deserts, the snows of the Alps, or Balkan forests carrying the weight of similarly traumatic events, to find a new life in an increasingly inhospitable Europe. Once they get there - if they do - how do they begin to process the painful experiences that prompted their journeys?