Publications Torture in war, consequences and rehabilitation of victims – Yugoslav experience Posted on 8. October 2004. 6 min read 0 0 4,187 “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 ” Download book Table of Contents Contributors (3548 downloads ) Acknowledgements (3556 downloads ) Foreword (3581 downloads ) ( Željko Špirić, Goran Knežević, Vladimir Jović, Goran Opačić) PART I – WAR AND LOSSES Yugoslav Wars 1991-1999 and Some of Their Social Consequences (3692 downloads ) – Bora Radović PART II HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE: ORGANISATION AND ACTION Psychosocial Assistance in Humanitarian Interventions – Six Years of Experience in IAN (1997-2003) (3654 downloads ) – Vladimir Jović Against Torture - The Road to a Healthy Individual and Society: Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (3522 downloads ) – Dušica Lečić – Toševski and Jelena Bakalić Activities of the CRTV Mobile Teams (3663 downloads ) – Mina Mitić and Stanislava Vuković PART III TORTURE: VICTIMS AND CONSEQUENCES The Socio-demographic and Psychiatric Profiles of Clients in the Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims - IAN Belgrade (3718 downloads ) – Željko Špirić and Goran Knežević Types of Torture (3720 downloads ) – Vladimir Jović and Goran Opačić Somatic Disorders of Clients in the Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims: The One-Year Experience of "MEDIAN" (2639 downloads ) – Petar Otašević, Katarina Mitrović and Predrag Mitrović PART IV TORTURE, STRESS AND DISSOCIATION About a Mathematical Model of the Psychobiology of Stress Reaction (3517 downloads ) – Danka Savić SRD-10 - Short Scale for the Assessment of Stress-Related Dissociation Symptomatology (3646 downloads ) – Goran Knežević and Vladimir Jović Torture and Dissociation (3786 downloads ) – Goran Knežević PART V THERAPY AND REHABILITATION I: TREATMENT OF TORTURE VICTIMS Changes in the Intensity and Frequency of Psychiatric Problems Related to Traumatic Experience after Three Months of Treatment (2665 downloads ) – Goran Opačić and Goran Knežević Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Torture Victims (3619 downloads ) – Slavko Mačkić and Jovanka Cvetković Specific Aspects of Group Work with Torture Victims (3571 downloads ) – Slavoljub Milojevć Characteristics of Group Sociotherapeutic Work with Elements of Psychodrama with Torture Victims (3609 downloads ) – Vladimir Milošević EMDR in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Prisoners of War (3673 downloads ) – Zoran Ilić Therapy with Torture Victims: An Integrative Model and the Importance of Pharmacotherapy (3553 downloads ) – Samardžić Radomir PART VI THERAPY AND REHABILITATION II: THE WOUNDED Torture in the Therapy Environment: Counter-transference in Working with Victims of Organised Violence (3621 downloads ) – Vladimir Jović and Nataša Cvetković – Jović IAN Counsellors in Group Supervision (3626 downloads ) – Aleksandar Vučo and Tamara Štajner-Popović Secondary Traumatisation and Counselling of Torture Victims' Family Members (3629 downloads ) – Vladimir Milošević PART VII LEGAL AND PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS Legal Aspects of the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (3710 downloads ) – Mojca Šivert Legal Consequences of the Delayed Occurrence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (3664 downloads ) – Mojca Šivert and Vladimir Milošević Psychological Preparation of Torture Victims as Witnesses toward the Prevention of traumatisation (3638 downloads ) – Zoran Ilić REVIEWS (3572 downloads )