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Some Thoughts about the Trauma Incurred by Adult Victims of Torture

Pages 183-185
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This response to Cristina Caizzi's article “Embodied Trauma: Using the Subsymbolic Mode to Access and Change Script Protocol in Traumatized Adults” offers further thoughts about the impact of torture on victims. Also discussed briefly are the effects of trauma on victims of deliberately inflicted pain, intimidation, and threats to survival both physical and psychological. The author focuses on treatment issues, the long-lasting nature of symptoms resulting from trauma, and the impact on helping professionals who are confronted with the human capacity for cruelty and violence toward others.

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Diana Shmukler

Diana Shmukler, Ph.D., Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), is a visiting tutor at Metanoia in London; a clinical and research psychologist with the South Africa Medical and Dental Council; an integrative psychotherapist; a supervisor and teacher member of the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy; a former associate professor of applied psychology at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; and visiting professor of psychotherapy at the University of Derby, United Kingdom. She can be reached at 23a Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3 7EE, United Kingdom or by e-mail at .