Torture Survivors and Caregivers
Author: Luis V. Teodoro
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 416
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Author: Luis V. Teodoro
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: June C. Pagaduan
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 357
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James M. Jaranson
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780880487740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its beginnings in the 1970s, the field of torture rehabilitation has grown rapidly. A growing awareness about the practice of torture (more than 100 countries today practice government-sanctioned torture) and its effects on victims is leading to an increasing number of dedicated treatment centers. The health care professionals on the staffs of these centers need the best, most up-to-date information and advice they can get. This book delivers it. Caring for Victims of Torture contains all the collective wisdom of some of the most respected international experts in the treatment of victims of government torture -- all distinguished physicians -- including pioneers in the field of traumatic stress. Contributors discuss the most recent advances in knowledge about government-sanctioned torture and offer practical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of torture victims. Organized into six main sections, this annotated volume provides an overview of the history and politics of torture and rehabilitation; guidance in identifying and defining the sequelae of torture; a framework for assessment and treatment; specific treatment interventions; and a discussion of ethical implications. In the final section, physicians working in the field offer firsthand accounts and address how they are trying to balance politics with caregiving. Focusing on the physician's role, this book is chiefly a clinical guide. But for advanced-level students, it serves as a thorough, up-to-date text and reference work. Religious leaders, lawyers, politicians, human rights advocates, and torture victims themselves will find it a valuable resource as well.
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 357
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nancy L. Pearson
Publisher: UP-CIDS, University of the Philippines, Center for Integrative and Development Studies
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ellen Gerrity
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1461512956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1997 the National Institute of Mental Health assembled a working group of international experts to address the mental health consequences of torture and related violence and trauma; report on the status of scientific knowledge; and include research recommendations with implications for treatment, services, and policy development. This book, dedicated to those who experience the horrors of torture and those who work to end it, is based on that report.
Author: Rebecca Napier
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Center for Victims of Torture
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Published: 1999
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2012-08-24
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0299288536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Americans have condemned the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject’s resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America’s moral authority as a world leader.