DrJadresic was taken prisonerfollowing the military coup in Chile in 1973. While under arrest he was called upon to assist the military doctor-in-charge of the tent hospital set up in the grounds ofthe National Stadium. Although this did notgive him any privileges as aprisoner, his being able to assist in the hospital did enable him to see what wasgoing on in the camp. In this paper Dr Jadresic...

This month PLoS Medicine publishes a research article reporting that medical doctors and mental health professionals from the US Department of Defense working at the Guantánamo Bay prison concealed or failed to document medical evidence of intentional harm of nine detainees [1]. The authors—Vincent Iacopino, a senior medical advisor to Physicians for Human Rights, and Stephen Xenakis, a retired...

Torture is a particularly horrible crime, and any participation of physicians in torture has always been difficult to comprehend. As General Telford Taylor explained to the American judges at the trial of the Nazi doctors in Nuremberg, Germany (called the "Doctors' Trial"), "To kill, to maim, and to torture is criminal under all modern systems of law . . . yet these [physician] defendants, all ...

The diagnostic process and treatment of victims of war and torture is associated with a number of difficulties. This article will provide an overview of three different approaches on how the new media may be integrated into the treatment of survivors of torture and war to face some of the challenges. Illiteracy is a common problem and makes it difficult to apply standardized psychological asses...

Objective: Some studies found that torture did not predict posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is associated with more complex symptoms survivors are resilient than other refugees. The goal to recheck the validity of these findings. Method: A secondary analysis data 502 Syrian refugees, whom 123 were survivors, we measured cumulative stressors traumas (CST), PTSD, identity salience, post-c...