Witnessing Torture Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers [1st ed. 2018] 9783319749648, 9783319749655, 331974965X

Table of contents :
Alone at Night......Page 7
Rhetorics of Torture in the Public Sphere......Page 8
On the Social and Institutional Contexts of Witnessing: Expanding the Frame of Life Writing about Torture......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 28
Contents......Page 30
Notes on Contributors......Page 33
Part I......Page 39
Chapter 1: Torture: The Catastrophe of a Bond......Page 44
The Subculture of Fear: The Irresponsible Subject......Page 46
The Decision to Be a Torturer......Page 48
Torture: Etiology of Clinical Manifestations That Follow......Page 49
Tortured: Anguish and Attempts at a Solution......Page 51
Psychological Phases and Processes in a Situation of Torture......Page 53
Chapter 2: Torture in an Historical Context: Notes from Sudan......Page 57
Torture in Sudan after 1989......Page 61
My Ghost House Life......Page 62
Reflection and Evaluation......Page 65
Torture Menu......Page 67
Chapter 3: The Unspeakable Agony of Inflicted Pain: Torture, Betrayal, Redress......Page 72
Pain Revisited......Page 73
Let Me Rewind a Bit......Page 75
The Aftermath......Page 78
Our TASSC......Page 81
Chapter 4: Translating Trauma, Witnessing Survival......Page 82
Transforming “Unspeakable” to Spoken......Page 84
Serving as an Agent of Healing and Hurt......Page 85
Beyond Being a Translator: Being a Fellow Human Being......Page 87
A Final Word about Bridging Distances......Page 89
Part II......Page 91
Chapter 5: The Role of Health Professionals in Torture Treatment......Page 95
Introduction......Page 96
Role as Healer......Page 98
Role as Accompanier......Page 100
Role as Spiritual Guide......Page 101
Role as Advocate......Page 102
What Survivors Have Taught Me......Page 103
Chapter 6: Assessing the Treatment of Torture: Balancing Quantifiable with Intangible Metrics......Page 105
Introduction......Page 107
Methodology......Page 111
Evidence-Based Practice in Torture Treatment and Rehabilitation......Page 112
Interviewing Survivors of Torture......Page 116
Meeting Other Survivors......Page 117
Speaking in Public......Page 118
Healing......Page 119
Conclusion......Page 122
Chapter 7: The Little Red Cabinet of Tears: The Impact upon Treatment Providers of Bearing Witness to Torture......Page 123
Coming Undone......Page 127
Learning to Hold the Trauma......Page 131
Social Consequences......Page 132
Changed Worldview......Page 134
Challenged Spiritual Beliefs......Page 135
The Process of Strengthening Myself to Bear Witness to Torture......Page 136
Strengthening through Learning......Page 137
Transformation and Resilience......Page 139
Conclusion......Page 142
Chapter 8: Beyond Institutional Betrayal: When the Professional Is Personal......Page 144
Introduction......Page 145
Professional Identity and the APA......Page 150
What Can I Do? What Can I Help Others Do?......Page 164
Further Thoughts......Page 167
Part III......Page 170
Chapter 9: Everardo and the CIA’s Long-Term Torture Practices......Page 176
Guatemala, a Long-Standing Example......Page 178
Everardo......Page 179
Voices of the Survivors......Page 186
Chapter 10: Survivors and the Origin of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance......Page 190
FEDEFAM......Page 193
The Need for a Convention......Page 194
The Definition of Enforced Disappearance......Page 195
The Right to Know the Truth about the Fate of the Person Disappeared and All Related Circumstances......Page 197
The Right to Justice for the Families of the Disappeared......Page 198
Multiple Aspects of the Right to Reparation Are Affirmed......Page 199
Never Again: The Right Not to Be Subject to Enforced Disappearance......Page 200
Chapter 11: The Tenacity of Memory: Art in the Aftermath of Atrocity......Page 202
Empathy......Page 203
Impotence......Page 206
Memory......Page 208
Truth......Page 210
Art......Page 211
Epilogue......Page 214
Chapter 12: Teaching about Torture, or, Reading between the Lines in the Humanities......Page 215
The Academic as Intellectual......Page 217
Inter-Legere as Imagination......Page 218
Failures of Imagination......Page 219
Responding to “the testimony of one’s own eyes and ears”......Page 220
Failures of Imagination in the Academy......Page 223
Torture and Teaching as Institutionalized Praxes......Page 224
Torture as a Historical and Cultural Praxis......Page 227
Exposing the Secret: Torture Today in Fact, Language, and Representation......Page 230
Torture Culture, American Style......Page 232
Imagining More......Page 235
Academic Praxis and Torture?......Page 237
Imagining Human Rights as Mainstream......Page 241
Chapter 13: Legal Appeal: Habeas Lawyers Narrate Guantánamo Life......Page 242
Chapter 14: Did We Survive Torture?......Page 261
Epilogue: From Solitude to Solidarity......Page 267
Index......Page 271