Maltreatment 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.

Torture and the Human Mind

iction of severe physical and emotional distress as a means of extracting information from detainees, the situation must be grave and the need for intelligence extreme. Whether understood as “enhanced interrogation” or “torture,” the process requires stepping outside the bounds of normal interrogation conduct. Evaluating the effi cacy of enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT), therefore, is vi...