TORTURE IN WAR: CONSEQUENCES AND REHABILITATION OF VICTIMS
Yugoslav experience

"The idea to put together this book came after two years of work in the Centre for
Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (CRTV) within International Aid Network (IAN) Belgrade. It is the expression of a long-felt need of professionals in IAN to share their
experiences in rehabilitation of torture victims with the wider expert, professional and scientific public...

Our clients are individuals who lost their physical and psychic health, their loved ones, relatives, friends, their home, place of origin, neighbours, their safety, ability to work, as well as ability to provide for themselves. However, the most difficult losses to bear are those invisible and immeasurable ones, from the intimate psychic sphere of victims, linked mainly with the loss of capacity for emotional exchange, inability to experience personal and family happiness, loss of confidence in institutions, other people and themselves, as well as the loss of dignity and hope..."

Exctract from the Foreword of the book "TORTURE IN WAR: CONSEQUENCES AND REHABILITATION OF VICTIMS - Yugoslav experience "

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword (Željko Špiric, Goran Kneževic, Vladimir Jovic and Goran Opacic)

PART I - WAR AND LOSSES

1. Yugoslav Wars 1991-1999 and Some of Their Social Consequences - Borislav Radovic

PART II HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE: ORGANISATION AND ACTION

2. Psychosocial Assistance in Humanitarian Interventions – Six Years of Experience in IAN (1997-2003) - Vladimir Jovic
3. Against Torture – The Road to a Healthy Individual and Society: Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims - IAN Belgrade - Dušica Lecic-Toševski and Jelena Bakalic
4. Activities of the CRTV Mobile Teams - Mina Mitic and Stanislava Vukovic

PART III TORTURE: VICTIMS AND CONSEQUENCES

5. The Socio-demographic and Psychiatric Profiles of Clients in the Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims – IAN Belgrade - Željko Špiric and Goran Kneževic
6. Types of Torture - Vladimir Jovic and Goran Opacic
7. Somatic Disorders of Clients in the Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims: The One-Year Experience of "MEDIAN" - Petar Otaševic, Katarina Mitrovic and Predrag Mitrovic

PART IV TORTURE, STRESS AND DISSOCIATION

8. About a Mathematical Model of the Psychobiology of Stress Reaction - Danka Savic
9. SRD-10 – Short Scale for the Assessment of Stress-Related Dissociation Symptomatology - Goran Kneževic and Vladimir Jovic
10. Torture and Dissociation - Goran Kneževic

PART V THERAPY AND REHABILITATION I: TREATMENT OF TORTURE VICTIMS

11. Changes in the Intensity and Frequency of Psychiatric Problems Related to Traumatic Experience after Three Months of Treatment - Goran Opacic and Goran Kneževic
12. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Torture Victims - Jovanka Cvetkovic and Slavko Mackic
13. Specific Aspects of Group Work with Torture Victims - Slavoljub Milojevic
14. Characteristics of Group Sociotherapeutic Work with Elements of Psychodrama with Torture Victims - Vladimir Miloševic
15. EMDR in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Prisoners of War - Zoran Ilic
16. Therapy with Torture Victims: An Integrative Model and the Importance of Pharmacotherapy - Radomir Samardžic

PART VI THERAPY AND REHABILITATION II: THE WOUNDED

17. Torture in the Therapy Environment: Counter-transference in Working with Victims of Organised Violence - Vladimir Jovic and Nataša Cvetkovic-Jovic
18. IAN Counsellors in Group Supervision - Aleksandar Vuco and Tamara Štajner-Popovic
19. Secondary Traumatisation and Counselling of Torture Victims' Family Members - Vladimir Miloševic

PART VII LEGAL AND PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS

20. Legal Aspects of the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims - Mojca Šivert
21. Legal Consequences of the Delayed Occurrence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - Mojca Šivert and Vladimir Miloševic
22. Psychological Preparation of Torture Victims as Witnesses toward the Prevention of traumatisation - Zoran Ilic

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