Psychological torture : definition, evaluation and measurement /
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| Author / Creator: | PeĢrez-Sales, Pau, author. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. |
| Description: | xx, 412 pages ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11036391 |
Table of Contents:
- Premises
- Where things stand : the concept of torture and psychological torture
- The voices
- Intangible elements of psychological torture : learning from the voices of survivors
- The definition of psychological torture in the testimonies of harsh interrogators and torturers
- Current legal perspectives
- Psychological torture in international law
- From dignity to identity: humiliation as a paradigm of the differences between legal and mental health perspectives
- The perpetrator's psychological and legal rationale : motivation, intention and purpose
- Scientific approaches to defining psychological torture
- Cataloguing torture methods
- The neurobiology of psychological torture
- Trauma theory and the concept of psychological torture
- Psychological torture techniques
- The roots of psychological torture in modern history : the slow road to convergence
- Primary needs and relationship to the environment
- The limitations of normal interrogation in law enforcement procedures
- Interrogation procedures in military intelligence gathering
- The psychological manipulation of identity
- Technological research and psychological torture
- A proposed definition and measurement of psychological torture
- Redrawing the conceptual map of torture
- A new outlook for defining and measuring torturing environments
- The need to further develop the istanbul protocol
- Final thoughts and an agenda for future research
- Bibliography.
