Debate about interrogational torture still returns to the ticking-bomb scenario, despite the weight of evidence that it neither works nor withstands moral scrutiny. The post-9/11 record, from Abu Ghraib to the CIA black sites, already marked a decisive shift toward psychological forms of coercion. The technologies now emerging make a different kind of coercion possible. This paper argues that...
Introduction: Voice hearing (VH) is commonly associated with psychosis but it has also been reported in PTSD. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify the prevalence of VH in a sample of 110 treatment-seeking trauma-affected refugees, and to examine the relative role of certain interpersonal traumatic events (i.e., torture, inprisonment, sexual assault, non-sexual assault), PTSD...