Importance Despite its prohibition by the United Nations Convention against Torture and
other international treaties, torture has been perpetrated against countless individuals …

All generalist and specialist clinicians are likely to encounter torture survivors among
refugees and asylum seekers. A minority of people survive torture and a smaller minority …

Detainees may be subjected to torture and extra-judicial execution by State actors and
terrorists. But, the pathology of torture has not been well-described. This is due to the lack of …

Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights contributes to the development of that field of
study called 'psycho-social'that is presently more and more committed to providing …

Methods: A narrative review of assessment and treatment studies, informed by clinical
experience, was undertaken. Results: The clinical presentation in survivors of torture shares …

Trauma survivors, and particularly torture survivors, suffer from high rates of chronic pain
and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for years afterward, along with alterations in the …

Background Tissue injury may, in some instances, induce chronic pain lasting for decades.
Torture survivors suffer from high rates of chronic pain and hypersensitivity in the previously …

Torture and the conditions under which it is inflicted often leave persistent painful disorders.
Because there may be no lasting signs, persistent pain is often misconceived as a somatic …

Pain care for survivors of torture and of war shows similarities and marked differences. For
both, pain can be complex with unfamiliar presentations and the pains hard to assign to …

Discussion The findings in the lower limbs and feet were typical of falanga where the soles
of the feet have been repeatedly struck by a blunt object. Although torture has been defined …