Citation

Bendfeldt-Zachrisson F. Int. J. Health Serv. 1988; 18(2): 301-310.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington 40536.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Baywood Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3378860

Abstract

The practice of torture in Latin America is fundamentally an activity of the state and part of a larger program of repression. In this article, the author analyzes, in general, the psychology of the methods and practice of torture, and, in particular, the psychological defenses likely activated by the torturer when confronting the victim. The contradictions in the relationship of torturer are seen in the light of larger social contradictions within the scheme of domination.

Language: en