MENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF TORTURE: The Method of Rehabilitation at a Rehabilitation Centre at Copenhagen

Introduct ion Investigations of former KZ-prisoners report of extensive physical and psychological sequences. Some studies have focused on the somatic consequences of hunger dvstrophy (Herman and Thygcsen 1954, Thygcsen et al 1970) and the KZ-syndrome is seen as an organic damage also affecting the brain (Nielsen 1986). Others (e.g. Chodoft 1982) stress that the massive emotional and physical trauma may be seen as the cause behind the sequelae. In studies of other consequences ot the Second WorldWar, such-as the War Sailor Syndrome (Askewold 1980), similar findings were reported.