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The weight of the past: trauma and testimony in Que bom te ver viva [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article examines representations of trauma in Lúcia Murat’s Que bom te ver viva (How Nice to See You Alive, 1989), a semi-documentary focusing on the experiences of former political militants who, like the director herself, were arrested and ...
Heise, Tatiana
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Neglect of medical evidence of torture in Guantánamo Bay: a case series.

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2011
BackgroundIn the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, the government authorized the use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques that were previously recognized as torture.
Vincent Iacopino, Stephen N Xenakis
doaj   +1 more source

Debility, dependency and dread: On the conceptual and evidentiary dimensions of psychological torture

open access: yesTorture, 2018
Background: Psychological torture is deployed to break and obliterate human resistance, spirit and personality, but it is rarely afforded sufficient attention.
Ergun Cakal
doaj   +1 more source

IMPACT AND IMPORTANCE, FOR BRAZIL, OF EIGHT THEMATIC REPORTS OF THE UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE.

open access: yesRevista de Derecho, 2023
This research article translation explains that United Nations Special Rapporteurship on Torture has approved eight thematic reports on the use of force; migration; prohibition of torture; corruption; domestic violence; psychological torture ...
Henrique Napoleão Alves
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of torture on mental health in the narratives of two torture survivors

open access: yesTorture, 2018
Introduction: Torture survivors risk developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as well as other mental health problems. This clinical case study describes the impact of torture on two survivors who were treated for their PTSD with Narrative ...
Simone M. de la Rie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Remote medico-legal assessment by telephone during COVID-19: Monitoring safety and quality when documenting evidence of torture for UK asylum applicants

open access: yesTorture, 2021
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we developed remote assessment to provide interim medicolegal reports, ensuring people could obtain medical evidence to support their asylum claim.
Juliet Cohen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efectos tardíos de la tortura. Reparación y aportes desde la psicología

open access: yesILCEA, 2016
During the State terrorism, the method of discipline used by the repressors to impose their ideas was the systematic use of terror and its main instruments: torture and long-term political imprisonment.
María Celia Robaina
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesTorture, 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human rights trauma and the mental health of West Papuan refugees resettled in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article finds that West Papuan refugees resettled in Australia report a wide range of premigration potentially traumatic events (PTEs) including human rights violations as well as symptoms of PTSD and distress.Abstract Objectives: To document the ...
Susan Rees
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