Center for Survivors of Torture

Recommended Articles and Books

• Amnesty International. Refugees: Human Rights Have No Borders. New York: Amnesty International, 1997.
• Conroy, John. Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture. Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 2000.
• DeMoss, Sharmin and Rebecca Napier. The Caregiver's Guide to Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Manual for Those Who Work with Survivors of Torture and Severe Trauma. Dallas: Center for Survivors of Torture, 2004.
• Forrest, Duncan (ed.). A Glimpse of Hell: Reports on Torture Worldwide. New York: New York University Press; England: Amnesty International, 1996.
• Herman, J. L. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. New York: Basic Books, 1992
• Janoff-Bulman, R. Shattered Assumptions: Towards a New Psychology of Trauma. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
• Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkley, California: University of California Press, 2000.
• Kemp, Charles and Lance Rasbridge. Refugee and Immigrant Health: A Handbook for Health Professionals. Cambridge: Cambridge Press University, 2004.
• Ortiz, Dianna. The Blindfold's Eye: My Journey from Torture to Truth. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002.
• Physicians for Human Rights. Examining Asylum Seekers: A Health Professional's Guide to Medical and Psychological Evaluations of Torture. Library of Congress, 2001.
• Saakvitne, K. W. & Pearlman, L.A. Transforming the Pain: A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1996.
• Stamm, H. B. et al (Ed.). Secondary Traumatic Stress: Self-Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers, and Educators. Lutherville, Maryland: Sidran Press, 1995.
• Stein, Murray (ed.). Jung on Evil. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.
• United National High Commissioner for Refugees. Crisp, Jeff, et.al (ed.). The State of the World's Refugees: A Humanitarian Agenda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Weisaeth (Eds.), Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society. New York: The Guildford Press, 1996.
• Wilson, John P. and Boris Drozdek. Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seeker, Refugees, War and Torture Victims. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004.

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