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Feasibility of an interpreter-mediated neuropsychological test battery for trauma-affected refugees [PDF]
European Journal of PsychotraumatologyBackground: Cognitive impairment in trauma-affected refugees is often unassessed due to the absence of suitable cross-cultural neuropsychological measures, the high prevalence of psychiatric symptoms, and the need for interpreter mediation.
Søren Kit Bothe +4 more
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Torture and its sequelae among prostituted women in the United States [PDF]
European Journal of PsychotraumatologyBackground: Extreme violence and psychological abuse have been extensively documented and are pervasive in prostitution. Survivors of prostitution report high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociation, depression, and self-loathing. These are
Melissa Farley, M. Alexis Kennedy
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Torture without Torturers [PDF]
Current Anthropology, 2020 What happens when trauma becomes a political frame for recognizing anti-black racism and police violence?
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Obituary to Prof. Henrik Marcussen
Torture, 2023 Obituary to Prof. Henrik Marcussen (17 January 1938 - 22 February 2023)
Torture Journal Editorial Team
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021 Background Globally, violence disproportionately affects young people, leading to injury, hospitalisation, death, social dysfunction, and poor mental wellbeing.
Nishant Mehra +4 more
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Psychological, social and welfare interventions for psychological health and well-being of torture survivors [PDF]
, 2011 This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: Primary objective 1. To assess beneficial and adverse effects of psychological, social and welfare interventions versus no treatment for the reduction of ...
Basoglu +37 more
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Medico-legal evaluation of torture victims in the USA before the Istanbul Protocol
Torture, 2023 The article reviews the historical precedents of the Forensic Assessment of Torture Survivors in the US in the 1970s and 1980s, setting the precedents of the US branch of the construction of the Istanbul Protocol that was developed in the late 1990s.
Jose Quiroga, Ana Deutsch
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The Jouissance of the Torturer in Zero Dark Thirty and the Enjoyment of the Unacceptable [PDF]
, 2014 : In the scene of torture we can see a paradox at work in which the torturer is both sanctioned by positive law and prohibited by oedipal law. This latter prohibition brings the perpetrator into the proximity of, what can be understood as a Lacanian mode
Rogers, Juliet Brough
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Military Medicine, 2001 Torture represents an exceptionally traumatic experience in which horror, helplessness, and hopelessness are extreme. Therefore, it can be expected that depression, along with other trauma-related disorders is present in torture victims at higher rates than in other psychotraumatized individuals. To demonstrate this, we examined two groups of refugees,
Rončević-Gržeta, Ika +3 more
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Torture, 2019 Introduction: Medical professionals have a key role in addressing torture and need an awareness and knowledge of torture in relation to rehabilitation approaches, prevention and international standards. This study was undertaken with the aim of assessing
Brenda Van den Bergh +7 more
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