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Torture and Mental Health

A Research Overview

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The Mental Health Consequences of Torture

Part of the book series: The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping ((SSSO))

Abstract

Over the last two decades, much work has been done on various forms of extreme trauma, particularly after the recognition in the early 1980s of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a diagnostic entity. Since then, significant progress has been made in the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of trauma survivors. Such progress, however, has not been paralleled by work specifically on the trauma of torture despite the widespread evidence of torture in the world and its mental health implications.

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  3. Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA

    Richard Mollica

  4. Rehabilitation and Research Center for Torture Victims, Borgergade 13, P.O. Box 2107, DK-1014, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Basoglu, M., Jaranson, J.M., Mollica, R., Kastrup, M. (2001). Torture and Mental Health. In: Gerrity, E., Tuma, F., Keane, T.M. (eds) The Mental Health Consequences of Torture. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1295-0_3

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