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The Health and Adaptation of Victims of Political Violence in Latin America (Psychiatric Effects of Torture and Disappearance)

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There are reportedly close to 15 million refugees in the world today. Among them there are individuals who have suffered imprisonment and torture and children whose families were disrupted by violent political persecution, separation, death or the disappearance of one of their members. Canada since World War II has attracted over 300,000 refugees from all parts of the world. From 1974–1981 over 20,000 people have arrived from Latin America alone seeking political asylum, a proportion of them allegedly having been subjected to violent persecution, including torture, in their country of origin.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Canada

    F. Allodi & A. Rojas

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  1. Académie de Paris, Université René Descartes, Paris, France

    Pierre Pichot (President, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Scientific Committee) (President, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Scientific Committee)

  2. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Berner (Secretary General, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Organizing Committee VII World Congress of Psychiatry Chief Editor, Congress Proceedings), Rainer Wolf  & Kenneth Thau (Secretary General, WPA at the time of the VII World Congress of Psychiatry President, Organizing Committee VII World Congress of Psychiatry Chief Editor, Congress Proceedings),  & 

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Allodi, F., Rojas, A. (1985). The Health and Adaptation of Victims of Political Violence in Latin America (Psychiatric Effects of Torture and Disappearance). In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2365-5_38

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