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Psychiatric Morbidity in Survivors of Organised State Violence Including Torture
A Retrospective Series
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 January 2018
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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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