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The British Journal of Psychiatry 162: 55-59 (1993)
© 1993 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Psychiatric morbidity in survivors of organised state violence including torture. A retrospective series

R Ramsay, C Gorst-Unsworth and S Turner
Out-patient Department of Psychological Medicine, University College Hospital, London.

The case notes documenting the psychological well-being of 100 survivors of torture and other forms of organised state violence were analysed retrospectively. The most common diagnoses were post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, and somatoform disorders. Of these, PTSD showed the strongest association with experience of torture. It is possible that PTSD has a dimensional nature, and that reactions to different stressors are heterogeneous.


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