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Civilization and torture: beyond the medical and psychiatric approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2008

Marcelo N. Viñar
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Abstract

The author argues that torture affects not only its victims, and also that torture is not a disease of the victim but an endemic illness of civilization which has the effect of shattering the social network that makes us human. In order to rebuild healthy social relationships, it is vital to detect and accept the existence of this invisible pathology. We must listen to the intense groan of torture victims and understand them if we are to dare to look at the oppressive order which destroys them.

Type
Torture
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 89 , Issue 867: Torture , September 2007 , pp. 619 - 633
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2007

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