Psychiatric Morbidity in Survivors of Organised State Violence Including Torture
- 3 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 162 (1) , 55-59
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.162.1.55
Abstract
The case notes documenting the psychological well-being of 100 survivors of torture and other forms of organised state violence were analysed retrospectively. The most common diagnoses were post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, and somatoform disorders. Of these, PTSD showed the strongest association with experience of torture. It is possible that PTSD has a dimensional nature, and that reactions to different stressors are heterogeneous.Keywords
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