@article{ref1,
title="Mental trauma affliction and infliction: punishment and atonement for sins?",
journal="Bulletin of emergency and trauma",
year="2014",
author="Hassan, Syed Tajuddin Syed and Jamaludin, Husna and Latiff, Latiffah Abdul and Raman, Rosna Abdul and Khaw, Wan Fei",
volume="2",
number="4",
pages="139-140",
abstract="Article 5 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states &quot;No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment&quot;. It is widely acknowledged worldwide that trauma related afflictions and inflictions e.g. due to acquired brain injury, are becoming a major disease burden, producing increasing morbidity and mortality. Most researches focussed on understanding the structural and mechanism components of the trauma dynamics e.g. in brain injury, for the care-receiver: aetiology, epidemiology, diagnostics, prognostics and recovery issues and sequelae, and for the care-giver:burden, coping, financial-infrastructure-support needs, and information requisition and utilisation. A usually hidden but of immense significance is the emotional trauma suffered and the psychological pain endured by the care-giver and the care-receiver. Apart from some cursory allusion on societal nonchalant-attitude, within some researches; emotional trauma has been little studied. This discussion dwells on emotional trauma, and frames it within a setting involving religious beliefs and conviction. A discourse on such a sensitive domain is critical and timely since much unnecessary suffering accrues from a societal-sanction paradigm validating and sensationalising punitive and negative convictions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2322-2522",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}