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Special Considerations for the Treatment of Pain from Torture and War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Pain care for survivors of torture and of war shows similarities and marked differences. For both, pain can be complex with unfamiliar presentations and the pains hard to assign to known disorders.
Baird, E, de C Williams, AC
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Sexual torture among Arabic-speaking Shi’a Muslim men and women in Iraq: Barriers to healing and finding meaning

open access: yesTorture, 2018
Introduction: Rape and sexual torture are frequent experiences among torture survivors, but relatively little is known about how victims respond to and find meaning in these experiences.
Christopher Einolf
doaj   +1 more source

Operational psychology, professional ethics, and democracy: A challenge for our time

open access: yesTorture, 2022
The post-9/11 US torture program brought attention to the critical roles of health professionals generally and of psychologists more particularly in the modern administration of torture.
Stephen Soldz
doaj   +1 more source

Perception, practice and proximity. Qualifying threats as psychological torture in international law.

open access: yesTorture, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Punitive Measures Followed After Iolation Against the Isolated in Imprisonment and Torture as a Model Andalusia [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانية, 2020
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon our master Muhammad and his family and companions,After the completion of this research, which God helped me to accomplish, which touched upon some of the punitive measures followed ...
Badi M. Ibrahim, Maher K. Shrimit
doaj   +1 more source

Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Torture used to be incompatible with American values. Our Bill of Rights forbids cruel and unusual punishment, and that has come to include all forms of corporal punishment except prison and death by methods purported to be painless.
Luban, David
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

The DSM 5 and the Istanbul Protocol: Diagnosis of psychological sequels of torture

open access: yesTorture, 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forensic Case Series

open access: yesTorture, 2021
Welcome to the Torture Journal Forensic Case Series, a new section of the Torture Journal. Through this Series, we aim to provide a source of information and continuing education for health and legal practitioners involved in the forensic evaluation of ...
James Lin, Ben McVane, Berta Soley
doaj   +1 more source

Make America cruel again?: a pragmatic analysis of why torture does not work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Jennifer Brown reviews some of the psychological evidence challenging the assumption that torture works as an interrogation technique. In light of Donald Trump’s recent comments on the use of torture, she suggests that the moral case is more effective in
Brown, Jennifer
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