Citation

Borchelt G, Pross C. Torture 2005; 15(1): 66-70.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims)

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Abstract

This report is the first to comprehensively examine the use of psychological torture by US personnel in the so-called "war on terror."1 It reviews the techniques used on detainees, what clinical experience and studies reveal about the long-lasting and extremely devastating health consequences of psychological torture, how a regime of psychological torture came about and was perpetuated, and what the current status of psychological torture is in US policy. Although the evidence is far from complete, what is known warrants the inference that psychological torture was central to the interrogation process and reinforced through conditions of confinement. Evidence exists of its continued use in 2004 and some practices likely remain in place to this day.

Language: en