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Psychological And Physical Torture Have Similar Mental Effects
Science Daily — Forms of ill treatment during captivity that do not involve physical pain--such as psychological manipulation, deprivation, humiliation and forced stress positions--appear to cause as much mental distress and traumatic stress as physical torture, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

The Research
Read the research behind this story in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry.