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Enhancing surgical care for torture survivors: healing trauma, promoting recovery, and advancing best practices [PDF]

BMC Surgery
Background A significant proportion of refugees and asylum seekers have experienced torture, leading to complex, long-term physical and psychological health needs.
Ana Carla S. P. Schippert, Ellen Karine Grov, Juha Silvola, Ann Kristin Bjørnnes   +3 more
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Hypervigilance and resistance among palestinian former prisoners [PDF]

Discover Mental Health
Introduction Palestinian political prisoners are subjected to systematic torture, sensory deprivation, and psychological violence in Israeli prisons. The effects of incarceration continue after release, shaping everyday life through lasting psychological
Bilal Hamamra, Ekrema Shehab, Asmaa Nairat, Shahd Shubairi   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The American Psychological Association’s Hoffman report allegations of my association with the “CIA torture” program

Health Psychology Open, 2018
Until now, I have not responded to the undocumented and untrue portrayal of me in the Hoffman report, or the newspaper and email accounts of my alleged role in “torture.” I have waited several years because I believed that the American Psychological ...
Joseph D Matarazzo
exaly   +2 more sources

The psychological impact of torture [PDF]

British Journal of Pain, 2013
Many refugees in the developed world are survivors of torture and present with health needs without their traumatic experience being disclosed or identified. Chronic pain is a common problem, as are symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and other distress.
de C Williams, Amanda C, van der Merwe, Jannie   +1 more
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Enforced disappearance as a form of psychological torture: Evidence from the Ayotzinapa Case (México)

Torture Journal, 2021
Objective: To analyse the impacts of forced disappearance as a form of psychological torture in the forced disappearance of students known as the Ayotzinapa Case (Mexico). To make visible the effects of impunity.
Natalia Huerta Perez, Edith Esgareño
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identifying resilience-promoting factors for refugee survivors of torture

Torture, 2022
Introduction: There are 1.3 million refugee survivors of torture currently living in the United States today. While a substantial body of research has been growing on refugee mental health, few studies have focused on refugee resilience. Objective: The
Phyu Pannu, Keith Burt, Karen Fondacaro
doaj   +1 more source

Review of the Book: Sophia Nagornaya, Shamil Khaziev. “Defense Attorney’s Duty and Psychologist’s Ethic: Mental (Psychological) Torture in the Russian Legal System” (edited by A. S. Kovalets; Foreword by RAS Academician A. A. Gusenkov. Moscow: LUM, 2020. 172 p.)

Pravo istoriya i sovremennost, 2021
The article is a review and analysis of the provisions of the book by S. Nagornaya, Sh. Khaziev “The Duty of a Lawyer and the Ethics of a Psychologist: Mental (psychological) torture in the legal system of Russia”.
V. G. Baev, K. Y. Puzyreva
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patterns of torture among forcibly displaced Eritreans in California: A cross-sectional study

Torture, 2021
Introduction: Unprecedented global increases in involuntary migration have created large populations of forcibly displaced people, who are disproportionately likely to have experienced abuse and torture.
P. Suzanne Portnoy, Alejandro Diaz, Jenna Kupa, Isabelle Rocroi, Emily Tatel, Kala Mehta, Nicholas Nelson   +6 more
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Editorial: Sexual violence in times of conflict [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
Thomas Wenzel, Thomas Wenzel, Thomas Wenzel, Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Thomas G. Schulze, Thomas G. Schulze   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Parrilla urethra: A sequalae of electric shock torture to genitals in men. A 40 case series in Kashmir (India)

Torture, 2020
Introduction: Since the 20th century, electric shock torture has become one of the most prevalent methods of torture partly because it produces sequelae that are more challenging to visibly detect, particularly when administered using high voltage and ...
Abdul Rouf khawaja, Manzoor Dar, Yasir Dar, Javeed Magray, Tariq Sheikh, Suhail Zahur   +5 more
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