Pau Perez Sales

Psychological Torture (eBook, ePUB)

Definition, Evaluation and Measurement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering book brings together existing knowledge from a broad range of disciplines to offer a new and measurable definition of psychological torture and expand our understanding of the field in a thorough and original fashion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317206460
• Artikelnr.: 47134143

Autorenporträt

Pau Pérez-Sales is Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section of Psychological Consequences of Persecution and Torture, Editor-in-Chief of Torture Journal, a practicing psychiatrist in Hospital La Paz (Madrid) and Director of the SiRa-GAC Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Index of Tables. Index of Figures. Section 1: Premises 1.
Where things stand: the concept of torture and psychological torture.
Section 2: The Voices 2. Intangible elements of psychological torture:
learning from the voices of survivors 3. The definition of psychological
torture in the testimonies of harsh interrogators and torturers. Section 3:
Current Legal Perspectives 4. Psychological torture in international law
5. From dignity to identity: humiliation as a paradigm of the differences
between legal and mental health perspectives 6. The Perpetrator's
psychological and legal rationale: motivation, intention and purpose.
Section 4: Scientific Approaches to Defining Psychological Torture 7.
Cataloguing Torture methods 8. The neurobiology of psychological torture 9.
Trauma theory and the concept of psychological torture. Section 5:
Psychological Torture Techniques 10. The roots of psychological torture in
modern history: the slow road to convergence 11. Primary needs and
relationship to the environment 12. Targeting the body to reach the mind:
pain without marks 13. The limitations of normal interrogation in law
enforcement procedures 14. Interrogation procedures in military
intelligence gathering 15. The psychological manipulation of identity 16.
Technological research and psychological torture. Section 6: A proposed
definition and measurement of psychological torture 17. Redrawing the
conceptual map of torture 18. A new outlook for defining and measuring
torturing environments 19. The Need to Further Develop the Istanbul
Protocol 20. Final thoughts and an agenda for future research. Annexes.
Bibliography