The Mental Health Consequences of Torture
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The Mental Health Consequences of Torture
This multi-author volume arises from a report by the Working Group of the US National Institute of Mental Health on the mental health consequences of torture. The establishment of the Working Group was stimulated by representatives of South Africa who attended a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency research conference on the survivors of torture in April 1997. One of the psychological responses to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-1250
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.182.1.83