Psychological Torture: Definition, evaluation and measurement, By Pau Pérez-Sales
Psychiatrist Pau Pérez-Sales has compiled a masterful and thorough analysis of an ambiguous but extremely important topic using a multidisciplinary approach. The book's objectives are to define torture, to build a theoretical framework for understanding and re-defining torture, to propose opera...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Torture |
| Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/torture-journal/article/view/26539 |
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| Summary: | Psychiatrist Pau Pérez-Sales has compiled a masterful and thorough analysis of an ambiguous but extremely important topic using a multidisciplinary approach. The book's objectives are to define torture, to build a theoretical framework for understanding and re-defining torture, to propose operational criteria for research, to propose working criteria for deciding whether a case constitutes torture and, finally, to propose adjustments in the Istanbul Protocol for documentation of torture. The author has accomplished all of these objectives successfully in a book that is well-written and easy to read, even though he draws from the esoteric concepts and language of legal, political, and scientific fields. |
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| ISSN: | 1018-8185 1997-3322 |