"This important new book introduces and discusses the underpinning of psychodynamic psychotherapy for torture survivors in a clinical setting, and incorporates concepts from analytical psychology and other theoretical bases in order to provide readers with a deeper understanding…
"This important new book introduces and discusses the underpinning of psychodynamic psychotherapy for torture survivors in a clinical setting, and incorporates concepts from analytical psychology and other theoretical bases in order to provide readers with a deeper understanding…
This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling th…
This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling th…
Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity - theirs and ours. And yet, when confronted with ho…
Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity - theirs and ours. And yet, when confronted with ho…
From the Publisher: It is, in some circles, called No-Touch Torture. Yet it brings pain and damage that can last a lifetime. Psychological torture techniques-which have a history of use by U.S. forces globally trailing far into the past beyond Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib-include a…
From the Publisher: It is, in some circles, called No-Touch Torture. Yet it brings pain and damage that can last a lifetime. Psychological torture techniques-which have a history of use by U.S. forces globally trailing far into the past beyond Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib-include a…
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The phenomenon of torture -- Torture : what is it? : a definition of the field of inquiry -- Torturous societies -- Social actors of torture -- A psychoanalytic understanding of torture -- Paradoxical multiple self states and monolithic self st…
Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights contributes to the development of that field of study called p̀sycho-social' that is presently more and more committed to providing understanding of social phenomena, making use of the explicative perspective of psychoanalysis. The book se…
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 understanding of social phenomena, making use of the explicative perspective of psychoanalysis. Monica Luc…