Depression and Torture

Tame to Torture: Psychosexual Correlations of Sex, Violence and Torture

This paper discusses the psychosexual correlations and psychological consequences related to torture and behavioral acts that are fundamentally torturous. The influence of participation by learning and the relationship of acts to thought and thought to acts are further discussed to raise awareness to the effects of torture on the torturer. Theories from multiple disciplines are presented in an ...

Ticlopidine, trials, and torture.

Clinical trials of stroke prevention in patients at high risk are based on, at best, a few hundred outcome events. Therefore, the conclusions of single trials are necessarily subject to random error. The Ticlopidine Aspirin Stroke Study (TASS) trial, which directly compared ticlopidine with aspirin, is no exception: the 3-year event rate for stroke or death (all causes) was 17% for ticlopidine ...

Contributory torture.

Sir, Contributory torture occurs when the behavior of the offender influences the behavior of the interrogator or, in a broader sense, anyone disciplining the offender. The word contributory is used because if the offender acts up, he/she is part of the reason for the type of punishment he/she receives. For example, if two people are arrested and one follows the directions of the officer and th...

Surviving torture.

Effect of counseling by paraprofessionals on depression, anxiety, somatization, and functioning in Indonesian torture survivors.

The Indonesian population has faced political violence, victimization, and torture throughout the last 70 years. Due to the scarcity of mental health professionals in many low and middle-income countries, counseling programs are increasingly utilizing paraprofessionals to provide support to the affected population as a strategy of task shifting. In this article, we would like to examine the eff...