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The punishment is usually administered in public view, the purpose being to halt the offense by inflicting pain, deter recurrence of the offense by shaming the offender and provide a salutary example to others.
Aug 4, 2023 · Stress positions are painful and damaging physical positions that torturers use to inflict harm without leaving scars. Learn about the effects, examples and reports of stress positions from CVT, a nonprofit that helps survivors of torture.
- Isolation
- Sensory Deprivation
- Sensory Overload
- Sleep Deprivation
- Temporal Disorientation
Isolation involves both the restriction of environmental stimuli and the reduction in the quantity and the quality of stimuli that are psychologically and socially meaningful. Often it is the reduction in social interaction that is the more problematic. As but one example, Captain Howard Rutledge an American prisoner of war who was held captive by ...
Isolation, solitary confinement and sensory deprivation lie along a spectrum of diminishing richness of physical and social stimuli. Although not admitted at first, funding for research into sensory deprivation was given to study the putative effects of ‘brain washing’ following concern over Chinese and North Korean interrogation methods and the fo...
Much research has been conducted into the effects of sensory deprivation and isolation but far less into sensory overload although evidence suggests that overstimulation is more aversive than under stimulation . Sensory overload, which has been an increasingly used technique in recent years, is often auditory (e.g., playing rock music incessantly o...
Sleep disturbance can occur in normal environments and has been regularly reported in exceptional environments such as space missions, polar expeditions, ICUs and so on [24, 54]. In space sleep tends to be shorter, more disturbed and shallower than on Earth . Deliberate sleep deprivation can also occur in exceptional situations (e.g., single-handed...
As well as the physical environment the temporal environment can also be manipulated. In normal circumstances it is possible to predict events with a degree of certainty: getting up and going to bed; meal times; work and play activities etc. Along with the ability to predict such events a person also has some control over them and their timings. He...
- John Leach
- john.leach@port.ac.uk
- 2016
Dec 23, 2014 · Stress positions, such as shackling hands over the head, mean a shift can bring pain or punishment, until “the mind begins to turn against itself, blaming itself for not following the...
The Bybee memo made specific reference to two types of stress position, the first being forcing detainees to sit on the floor with legs extended in front of him and arms above his head, and the second, forcing the detainee to kneel on the floor while leaning back at a 45 degree angle.
Aug 9, 2007 · Basoglu et al. (2007) have recently provided empirical evidence that 'psychological manipulations, humiliating treatment, and forced stress positions, do not seem to be substantially different from physical torture in terms of the severity of mental suffering they cause, the underlying mechanism of traumatic stress, and their long-term ...
Dec 4, 2019 · Stress Positions. Abu Zubaydah, Courtesy Mark P. Denbeaux. Accounts by detainees in different black sites have differed on how this method was used.
