Fornazzari X, Freire M
Queen Street Mental Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1990 Sep;82(3):257-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1990.tb03062.x.
This is a retrospective study on the effects of torture on Latin American refugee women in Toronto. Thirty-six cases of female torture victims are reviewed. The cases are divided in 2 groups, according to whether they experienced physical and psychological torture or only psychological assaults. Both groups are compared in terms of demographic characteristics, social and/or political involvement prior to the traumatic experiences, symptoms for which they sought psychiatric intervention and recovery rates. The symptoms presented by all women are consistent with those described in the literature for torture victims, regardless of their sex. The main findings are that women who experienced direct physical and psychological violence more frequently had persistence of symptoms than women who experienced only psychological violence.
这是一项关于酷刑对多伦多拉丁美洲难民妇女影响的回顾性研究。对36例女性酷刑受害者的案例进行了审查。根据她们是遭受了身体和心理折磨还是仅遭受了心理攻击，将这些案例分为两组。对两组在人口统计学特征、创伤经历之前的社会和/或政治参与情况、她们寻求精神科干预的症状以及康复率方面进行了比较。所有女性表现出的症状与文献中描述的酷刑受害者的症状一致，无论其性别如何。主要发现是，经历过直接身体和心理暴力的女性比仅经历过心理暴力的女性更频繁地出现症状持续的情况。
