The specificity of torture as trauma: The human wilderness when words fail

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 311-333

  Viñar, Marcelo N ^a  

^a NONE   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Concentration camp; Human; Narrative; Politic; Torture; Trauma; Victim; Violence; Word

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MENTAL HEALTH; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SELF CONCEPT; SYMBOLISM; TORTURE; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; WAR;

COMMUNICATION; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; CRIME VICTIMS; FREUDIAN THEORY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; JEWS; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUGGESTION; TORTURE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 19044397238     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1516/HTXE-6E9W-7BPE-BECD     Document Type: Article

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