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The trauma of psychological torture
Title:
The trauma of psychological torture
Author:
Ojeda, Almerindo E.
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, [2008]

©2008
Physical Description:
xv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
What is psychological torture? / Psychological torture as a Cold War imperative / Legacy of a dark decade : CIA mind control, classified behavioral research, and the origins of modern medical ethics / Psychologists, detainee interrogations, and torture : varying perspectives on nonparticipation / Doctors as pawns? Law and medical ethics at Guantánamo Bay / Neuropsychiatric effects of solitary confinement / Prison and the decimation of pro-social life skills / Neurobiological consequences of psychological torture / Documenting the neurobiology of psychological torture : conceptual and neuropsychological observations / Tortured brain / Case of Mohammed al Qahtani / Case of Salim Hamdan (Declaration of Daryl Matthews)
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ISBN:
9780313345142
Format :
Book