Introduction Self-harming behaviour has been found to be related to experiences of torture and life-threatening events among some refugee populations.1 The issue of intractable pain2, specifically associated with torture sequelae has had a central role in the identification of clusters denoting increased self-harming and risk-taking behaviour among traumatized refugees. The pathological environ...

This article draws on research into the use of music in the context of torture--both as a technique of torture and as a means of rehabilitation--to ask what types of musical activities and practices may constitute ill-treatment, up to and including torture. As well as providing information on the ways music is used in the context of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmen...

INTRODUCTION Torture is associated with adverse health consequences, with especially high rates of PTSD, depression and chronic pain. Despite increased awareness of the relationship between pain and posttraumaticsymptoms, and the accompanying need for effective treatment strategies, few studies have examined an integrated treatment of comorbid PTSD and pain. METHODS In this study, using an A-...

How can we eradicate violence against women? How, at least, can we reduce its prevalence? One possibility offered by Catharine MacKinnon is to harness international human rights norms, especially prohibitions on torture, and apply them to sexual violence with greater rigour and commitment than has hitherto been the case. This article focuses particularly on the argument that all rapes constitut...

torture entails the deliberate infliction of severe physical and mental pain and suffering through cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment and punishment to silence individuals and oppositions to the ruling authorities. such victims experience mental death, difficulties in coping, memory and concentration impairment, loss of core beliefs, feelings of shame and guilt, mental defeat, and alienatio...

qualities, especially when we find ourselves caught in the soulless, pitiless existence Rapoport describes. Is he unfair? Even he gave the MGB the names of friends and colleagues (p. 120), though throughout the book he tells us the probable dire effects of doing so. Yet he also cites instances of men forgiving colleagues for their betrayal, acknowledging that they could not help it (pp. 210-11)...

of scientifically testing your methods is still foreign,” Montgomery says. “They think it’s a waste of time and money they could be using to help their patients.” But objectively assessing methods is “the best way to improve them.” The first application of science at RCT is to test which approaches are most effective for which kinds of patients. Some studies focus on torture’s physiological leg...