This lone mental health clinic in northern Syria tackles mental trauma of war

The horrors of Syria's six-year war have left the country's population with devastating psychological scars (Photo: AFP)

A male patient from the neighbouring province of Raqa came back to his bombed-out home to find the lifeless bodies of his wife and six children (Photo: AFP)

Male patients with shaved heads squat barefoot in a courtyard, some dressed in uniforms and others in T-shirts and tracksuit trousers (Photo: AFP)

The second floor houses female patients in patterned dresses and flowery headscarves (Photo: AFP)

The horrors of Syria's six-year war have left the country's population with devastating psychological scars (Photo: AFP)

They were tortured and beaten, especially on the head. They started to have mental problems (Photo: AFP)

Others have developed anxieties related to the relentless bombing and violence that has killed more than 330,000 people (Photo: AFP)