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Psychological torture

Torture, 2020
Nimisha Patel
doaj   +7 more sources

“After torture, everything changed”: the unpacking of trauma from torture with interpretative phenomenological analysis and Merleau-Ponty’s theory of the lived body [PDF]

BMC Psychology
Background Trauma from torture is expressed primarily through bodily sensations and emotions, reflecting its deep imprint on the body’s memory. Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenology, which emphasizes the lived body, provides a valuable framework for ...
Ana Carla S. P. Schippert, Ellen Karine Grov, Ann Kristin Bjørnnes   +2 more
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The psychological impact of torture and state repression in Türkiye between 2015 and 2018: Reports from Turkish refugees seeking asylum in Germany.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023
Torture seeks to undermine not only the physical and emotional well-being of an individual, but to damage the coherence of entire communities. Thus, torture and state repression are used to weaken entire subpopulations.
Estella Alejandra Tambini Stollwerck, Ilkem Sarikaya, Kathrin Yen, Hans-Christoph Friederich, Christoph Nikendei   +4 more
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Debility, dependency and dread: On the conceptual and evidentiary dimensions of psychological torture

Torture, 2018
Background: Psychological torture is deployed to break and obliterate human resistance, spirit and personality, but it is rarely afforded sufficient attention.
Ergun Cakal
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Perception, practice and proximity. Qualifying threats as psychological torture in international law.

Torture, 2021
Background: Fear is a central dimension of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment (hereafter ‘other ill-treatment’), particularly as a part of verbal or non-verbal threats.
Ergün Cakal
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Gender differences in victims of war torture: Types of torture and psychological consequences [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2010
Background/Aim. Torture for political reasons is an extreme violence in interpersonal relations resulting in not only acute psychiatric disorders but also very often in very severe and far reaching negative consequences for the overall psychosocial ...
Špirić Željko, Opačić Goran, Jović Vladimir, Samardžić Radomir, Knežević Goran, Mandić-Gajić Gordana, Todorović Milorad   +6 more
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The psychological impact of sexual torture: A gender-critical study of the perspective of UK-based clinicians and survivors

Transcultural Psychiatry, 2022
Despite the high prevalence of sexual torture and its close link with gender, little work has been published on refugee torture survivors from Muslim-majority countries.
Roghieh Dehghan
exaly   +2 more sources

Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain, Part IV: Psychological and psychiatric consequences of ill-treatment and torture: trauma and human worldviewsi

Torture, 2018
Background: Most literature on psychological consequences of torture is related to prolonged detention. Psychological consequences of intensive physical and psychological torture in brief detention have not been investigated.
Lilla Hárdi, Miguel Angel Navarro-Lashayas, Pau Pérez-Sales, Gabriela Lopez-Neyra, Maitane Arnoso Martínez, Benito Morentin   +5 more
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The DSM 5 and the Istanbul Protocol: Diagnosis of psychological sequels of torture

Torture, 2018
The Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, commonly known as the Istanbul Protocol, is an interdisciplinary standard supported by, among others, the United Nations and
Thomas Wenzel, Andreas Frewer, Siroos Mirzaei   +2 more
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Special competencies for psychological assessment of torture survivors [PDF]

Transcultural Psychiatry, 2016
In spite of the absolute prohibition against torture in international law, this grave human rights abuse is still practiced systematically and with impunity in the majority of countries around the world. Mental health professionals can play a positive role in the fight against torture and impunity, by developing competencies to assess the ...
Kirby Huminuik
openaire   +4 more sources