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Psychological torture : definition, evaluation and measurement / Pau PeÌrez-Sales.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- PeÌrez-Sales, Pau, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychological torture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 412 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-405) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781317206477
- 1317206479
- Publisher Number:
- 99972914785
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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