Political violence is known to cause psychological distress. There is a large body of empirical studies drawing correlations between war trauma, torture, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, there are few studies on the effects of war-related trauma among Syrian refugees after events following the 'Arab Spring' uprisings between 2010 and 2012. This study examines the association ...

BACKGROUND Empathy is an important tool needed for service providers working with people who have experienced trauma, such as refugees and torture survivors. However, the high caseloads, rigorous deadlines, and overwhelming circumstances under which humanitarian workers typically operate often make it challenging to employ empathy. The Helpful Responses to Refugees Questionnaire (HRRQ) was deve...

Sir, I wish to add a few comments to the article " Prospective one-year treatment outcomes of tortured refugees: a psychiatric approach " by J David Kinzie et al., published in the latest issue of TORTURE. The article covers a worthwhile subject in need of attention. The theme is significant with regards to refugee community health and the development of resiliency in torture survivors. As the ...

How can human rights mechanisms better protect victims of torture? The article serves as an introduction to a special issue on torture and protection. It argues that protection is often thought about in way both too narrow broad provide effective responses the needs survivors torture, their families communities. proposes approach looks at from perspective security rather than formal norms mecha...

The term "sadistic abuse" is proposed to designate extre„te adverse experiences which include sadistic sexual and physical abuse, acts of torture, over-control, and terrorization, induction into violence, ritual involvements, and malevolent emotional abuse. Individuals with these extreme childhood histories may present with severe and multiple symptoms and a prolonged complicated treatment cour...

After a period of unrest in Caracas, Venezuela, in February/March 1989, Amnesty International (AI) received information about torture applied by security forces to people thought to have participated in or organised riots and lootings. In May 1989 a delegation from AI went to Caracas to collect and appraise testimonies of human rights abuses. The delegation consisted of two staff members from t...

Abstract That international law progressively recognises and prohibits emergent forms of torture related ill-treatment has become widely accepted in the anti-torture discourse. The premise that torture's techniques contexts change is taken to shape juridical recognition, representation response. Authoritative treaties, such as UN Convention Against Torture , European on Human Rights Inter-Ameri...

There is today a growing awareness both of the prevalence of torture involving a very large number of countries around the world and of the depth of the human suffering it leaves in its wake. Individual lives have been broken, the stability of families shattered, the psychic equilibrium of the children of torture victims disrupted. In the words of Simone Veil, former President of the European P...

(1971), Hypomania and mania after withdrawal of tricyclic antidepressants. Short and Long term administration of tri-cyclic antidepressants and Lithium on nore-pinephrine turn over in the brain, Science, 199, 197. The honesty of Kramer was dubious. He used to torture witches in Tyrol and was expelled by the local Bishop. Kramer could win a sympathetic hearing by Pope Innocent VIII. The Bull was...