Category Archives: Articles

From sexualized torture and gender-based torture to genderized torture: The urgent need for a conceptual evolution

Pérez-Sales, P., & Zraly, M. (2018). From sexualized torture and gender-based torture to genderized torture: The urgent need for a conceptual evolution.
Torture Journal, 28(3), 1–13.
https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v28i3.111179

Sleep deprivation does not work: Epidemiology, impacts and outcomes of incidental and systematic sleep deprivation in a sample of Palestinian detainees

Sehwail, M., Pérez-Sales, P., Rasras, K. M. ., Sehwail, W., Guasch, A., & Galan, A. (2019). Sleep deprivation does not work: Epidemiology, impacts and outcomes of incidental and systematic sleep deprivation in a sample of Palestinian detainees. Torture Journal, 28(2), 56–69.
https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v29i2.115381

Psychosocial and community assessment of relatives of victims of extra-judicial killings in Peru: Informing international courts

Rivera-Holguín, M., Pérez-Sales, P., Hildenbrand, A., Custodio, E., Vargas, G., Baca, N., Corveleyn, J., & De Haene, L. (2019). Psychosocial and community assessment of relatives of victims of extra-judicial killings in Peru: Informing international courts. Torture Journal, 28(1), 16–35.
https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v29i1.114046

Internet and communications as elements for CIDT and Torture. Initial reflections in an unexplored field

Pérez-Sales, P., & Serra, L. (2020). Internet and communications as elements for CIDT and Torture. Initial reflections in an unexplored field. Torture Journal, 30(1), 5–22. https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v30i1.120593

A review and proposal for an international standard of a minimum of six hours of continuous sleep in detention settings

Pérez-Sales, P. (2020). The 6/24 rule: A review and proposal for an international standard of a minimum of six hours of continuous sleep in detention settings. Torture Journal, 29(2), 1–10.
https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v29i3.118024

Hunger : Deprivation and manipulation of food as a torture method . State of the art in research and ways forward

Pérez-Sales, P. (2020). Hunger : Deprivation and manipulation of food as a torture method . State of the art in research and ways forward. Torture Journal, 30(3), 3–19. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v30i3.123318

Current debates, developments and challenges regarding torture, enforced disappearances and human rights

Duhaime, B., Méndez, J., & Perez-Sales, P. (2021). Current debates, developments and challenges regarding torture, enforced disappearances and human rights. Torture Journal, 31(2), 3–13.
https://doi.org/10.7146/torture.v31i2.128890

Inadequate use of the Istanbul Protocol in the assessment of torture victims by forensic professionals in Mexico

Pérez-Sales, P., Galán-Santamarina, A., Aguirre-Luna, D., Moscoso-Urzúa, V., Luna-Muñoz, D., Castilla-Calderas, M., & Escareño-Granados, E. (2021). Uso inadecuado del Protocolo de Estambul en la evaluación de víctimas de tortura por profesionales forenses en México. Gaceta Sanitaria, xx, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2021.01.007

Beyond torture checklists: an exploratory study of the reliability and construct validity of the Torturing Environment Scale (TES)

Pérez-Sales, P., González-Rubio, R., Mellor-Marsá, B., & Martínez-Alés, G. (2021). Beyond torture checklists: an exploratory study of the reliability and construct validity of the Torturing Environment Scale (TES). BMC Public Health, 21(1), 372. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10384-w

Refugee Camps as Torturing Environments—An Analysis of the Conditions in the Moria Reception Center (Greece) Based on the Torturing Environment Scale.

Pérez-Sales, P., Galán-Santamarina, A., Zunzunegui, M. V., & López-Martin, S. (2022). Refugee Camps as Torturing Environments—An Analysis of the Conditions in the Moria Reception Center (Greece) Based on the Torturing Environment Scale. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16).

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610233

Torturing environments and multiple injuries in Mexican migration detention. Humanities and Social Sciences Communication

Manek, J., Galán-Santamarina, A., & Pérez-Sales, P. (2022). Torturing environments and multiple injuries in Mexican migration detention. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1).
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01252-y

Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain: Part IV: Psychological and psychiatric consequences of ill-treatment and torture: trauma and human worldviews

Miguel Angel Navarro-Lashayas, Pau Pérez-Sales, Gabriela Lopez-Neyra, Maitane Arnoso Martínez, Benito Morentin. Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain: Part IV: Psychological and psychiatric consequences of ill-treatment and torture: trauma and human worldviews. Torture Journal. Volume 26, No. 3, 2016. Pg 34-35

Necesidades de salud mental en victimas de violencia política – Bases para la planificación de servicios en la Región de Huancavelica


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Carmen Sánchez Romero, Irina Kohan Revsin, Edith del Pino, Teresa Cárdenas, José Luis Huapaya, Sabina Rojas, Blanca Cid, Pau Pérez-Sales (2012). Necesidades de salud mental en victimas de violencia política – Bases para la planificación de servicios en la Región de Huancavelica.
Revista de psiquiatría y salud mental “Herminio Valdizán”. Vol XIII(2) 23-36

Representaciones sociales del pasado: la dictadura militar argentina en la memoria colectiva


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Maitane Arnoso-Martinez, Ainara Arnoso-Martinez, Pau Perez-Sales (2012). Representaciones sociales del pasado:la dictadura militar argentina en la memoria colectiva [Social representations of the past: the Argentine military dictatorship in collective memory]. Revista de Psicología Social 27 (3), 259-272

VIVO Questionnaire: A Measure of Human Worldviews and Identity in Trauma, Crisis, and Loss


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Pau Pérez-Sales, Francisco Jose Eiroa-Orosa, Pablo Olivos, Elena Barbero-Val, Alberto Fernández-Liria & María Vergara (2012): Vivo Questionnaire: A Measure of Human Worldviews and Identity in Trauma, Crisis, and Loss—Validation and Preliminary Findings, Journal of Loss and Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress and Coping, 17:3, 236-259

Integrating mental health care into existing systems of health care: during and after complex humanitarian emergencies: rethinking the experience.


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Pau Perez-Sales, Alberto Fernandez-Liria, Florence Baingana & Peter Ventevogel. Integrating mental health care into existing systems of health care: during and after complex humanitarian emergencies: rethinking the experience. en Intervention, International Journal of Mental Health (Special Issue) 2011. 345-357.

Emergencies and disasters as opportunities to improve mental health systems: Peruvian experience in Huancavelica


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Irina Kohan, Pau Perez-Sales, María Huamaní Cisneros, Rolando Chirinos, Ruben Perez-Langa, Miryam Rivera Holguín, Blanca Cid & Arturo Silva. Emergencies and disasters as opportunities to improve mental health systems: Peruvian experience in Huancavelica, in Intervention, International Journal of Mental Health (Special Issue) 2011. 195-210.

Las emergencias humanitarias y catástrofes como oportunidades estratégicas de cambio en los sistemas de salud mental.


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Kohan I, Pérez-Sales P.Humani M, Chirinos R. Pérez-Langa R. Rivera M. Cid B, Silva A. (2010) Las emergencias humanitarias y catástrofes como oportunidades estratégicas de cambio en los sistemas de salud mental. El caso del Plan Regional de Salud Mental de Huancavelica (Perú) [Humanitarian emergencies and catastrophes as strategic opportunities for change in mental health systems. The case of the Mental Health Regional Plan of Huancavelica (Peru).]. Cuad. Psiquiatr. Comunitaria, Vol. 10, N.º 1, pp. 49 – 57, 2010

Migración de zona andina en España: elementos para trabajadores de salud mental


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Pérez Sales, P (2009). Migración de zona andina en España: elementos para trabajadores de salud mental. En Ruiz P, Casas M (2009). Salud Mental en el paciente de América Andina. Ed Glosa / Fundacion Española de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental [Andean Migration in Spain: elements for mental health workers. In Ruiz P, Casas M (2009). Mental health in patients from Andean America / Salud mental en pacientes de la América andina. Ed gloss. Spanish Foundation for Psychiatry and Mental Health.].

Peritacion psicologica y psiquiatrica de maltrato y tortura en solicitantes de asilo


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Pau Perez Sales (2009). Peritacion Psicologica y psiquiatrica de Maltrato y Tortura en Solicitantes de Asilo. En Iñaki Marquez, Alberto Fernandez Liria, Pau Perez-Sales. Violencia y Salud Mental [Psychological and Psychiatric Expertise on Abuse and Torture in Asylum Seekers. In Iñaki Marquez, Alberto Fernandez Liria, Pau Pérez-Sales. Violence and Mental Health.]. Publicaciones Asociacion Española de Neuropsiquiatria. Madrid

Community mobilization after an earthquake


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Rivera, M., Perez-Sales, P., Jose Luis Aparcana, M. B., Gianella, C., & Lozano, A. (2008). Community mobilization after an earthquake: Case study of the use of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings on mental health and psychosocial support in Peru. Intervention, 6 (3/4), 275–283.

Judicialización de masacres en Guatemala: Estrategias psico-jurídicas en el contexto de exhumaciones


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Navarro S, Pérez-Sales P. (2007). Judicialización de masacres en Guatemala: Estrategias psico-jurídicas en el contexto de exhumaciones. En Instituto Inter Americano de Derechos Humanos Por una Vida Sin Tortura. IIDH. Costa Rica.
[Inter-American Institute on Human Rights. (2007) Judicialization of massacres in Guatemala: psycho-legal strategies in the context of exhumations. In “For a life without torture”/ “Por una Vida Sin Tortura”. Costa Rica.]

¿Por qué las exhumaciones no conducen a procesos de justicia en Guatemala?


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Navarro-García S, Pérez-Sales, P. (2007). ¿Por qué las exhumaciones no conducen a procesos de justicia en Guatemala? Datos y reflexiones desde una perspectiva psicosocial. Revista CEJIL 203, 90-99.
[Why do not exhumations lead to justice processes in Guatemala? Data and reflexiones from a psychosocial perspective.]

Consecuencias psicológicas y psiquiátricas de los atentados del 11 de Marzo en Madrid.


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Pérez-Sales (2004). Consecuencias psicológicas y psiquiátricas de los atentados del 11 de Marzo en Madrid. ¿Qué podemos esperar en el futuro? [Psychological and psychiatric consequences of the March 11 bombings in Madrid. What can we expect in the future?.]. ROL 27(4) 75.76

Validez de la ocupación como indicador de la clase social, según la clasificación del British Regist


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Alonso, J, Pérez-Sales, P, Sáez, M y Murillo, C: Validez de la ocupación como indicador de la clase social, según la clasificación del British Registrar General [Validity of occupation as an indicator of social class, as classified by the British Registrar General.]. En Gaceta Sanitaria, sep-oct 1997, vol 11, nº 5