publications

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PUBLICATIONS FROM CONCERNED NGO'S

• Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill-Treatment of Women, Amnesty International USA, New York, NY, 2001.
• The Center for Victims of Torture offers a wide range of publications for those working with torture survivors. Many can be downloaded from the CVT website.

• Communicating Torture and War Experiences with Primary Care Providers, Erin Mehta, RN, PHN, and Maureen E. O’Dougherty, PhD, Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, 2006. In detailed interviews with refugee clients at a clinic, 72% reported they had never brought up with their physician the ways they had been affected by violence. 66% reported that no doctor had ever asked, but 81% said they would like to talk to their doctors about war trauma if asked, or if it would be of help to their health.

• End Impunity: Justice for the Victims of Torture, Amnesty International, London, UK, 2001.
• Examining Asylum Seekers: A Health Professional’s Guide to Medical and Psychological Evaluations of Torture, Physicians for Human Rights, Boston, MA, 2001.
• Harvard Guide to Khmer Mental Health, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
• Healing the Hurt: A Guide for Developing Services for Torture Survivors, Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, MN (available for download).
• Los Desaparecidos / The Disappeared, North Dakota Museum of Art, Curator: Laurel Reuter. Edizioni Charta, Milan, Italy, 2006
• Torture Worldwide: An Affront to Human Dignity, Amnesty International USA, New York, NY, 2000.
• United States of America: A Safe Haven for Torturers, Amnesty International USA, New York, NY, 2002.
• Writing Out of the Darkness: An Anthology of Poetry by Refugees in Transition, edited by Ann Dernier, Owl and Panther Writing Project, Tucson, AZ, 2006.

TRADE BOOKS

• After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis, Patrick McCarthy; photographs by Tom Maday. Missouri Historical Society Press, St. Louis, MO, 2000
• American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, Kristian Williams. South End Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006.
• The Blindfold’s Eye: My Journey from Torture to Truth, Sister Dianna Ortiz, with Patricia Davis. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, NY, 2002.
• Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq, Tony Lagouranis and Allen Mikaelian. NAL Caliber/The Penguin Group, New York, NY, 2007.
• Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World, Richard F. Mollica, MD. Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, FL, 2006.
• Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror, Steven H. Miles, MD. Random House, New York, NY, 2006.
• One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers, Edited by Tara McKelvey. Seal Press, Emeryville, CA, 2007.
• The Pear Tree: Is Torture Ever Justified, Eric Stener Carlson. Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, GA, 2006.
• A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror, Alfred W. McCoy. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2006.
• Social Work Practice with Refugee and Immigrant Youth in the United States, Melvin Delgado, Kay Jones, and Mojdeh Rohani. Allyn & Bacon, 2004.
• Torture and Democracy, Darius Rejali. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007.
• Torture: A Collection, Edited by Sanford Levinson. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2004.
• The Torture Debate in America, Edited by Karen J. Greenberg. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2006.
• War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice, Aryeh Neier. Times Books/Random House, New York, NY, 1998.
• Writings for a Liberation Psychology: Ignacio Martín-Baró, Edited by Adrianne Aron and Shawn Corne. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.

JOURNALS

Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, Quarterly

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