A classic publication in this field which serves as a scholarly yet very practical resource.

In 1997 the National Institute of Mental Health assembled a working group of international experts to address the mental health consequences of torture and rela

"An outstanding collection that brings an extraordinary international perspective to the growing literature on the treatment of the survivors of torture." -- Ne

Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O’Mara’s account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals

This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on tor