Cristina often found herself wandering the streets of the Mission District for hours, without direction, contemplating suicide. “I just wanted to be alone,” she said — so much so that when she saw her son...
Two decades ago, the Spanish Jesuit priest Ignacio Martín-Baró witnessed the killing, torture and oppression of Salvadorans in the country’s decade-long civil war. A respected psychologist, he urged doctors to consider the social conditions of...