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Volume 345:1284-1285 October 25, 2001 Number 17

At the Side of Torture Survivors: Treating a Terrible Assault on Human Dignity

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Edited by Sepp Graessner, Norbert Gurris, and Christian Pross. 241 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. $46.50. ISBN 0-8018-6627-8.

Available for the first time in English, At the Side of Torture Survivors is an outstanding collection that brings an extraordinary international perspective to the growing literature on the treatment of the survivors of torture. The book's 12 chapters and afterword, all by members of the staff of the Berlin Center for the Treatment of Torture Victims, are consistently well written and substantive. Each chapter contains an intimate and unflinching description of the treatment of victims of torture and at the same time takes great care to provide context for professional and lay readers. The authors are clinicians who openly . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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