Talk:Psychological torture

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In stress positions, prisoners must maintain an extremely uncomfortable posture--for hours, or even days--and typically are beaten (or subjected to other, more overt forms of torture) if they fail to remain essentially immobile in the position as ordered. "Self-crucifixion at gunpoint" would perhaps exaggerate the prisoner's experience, but the description is instructive. Death, while not common, does occur.

An insidious aspect is that those subjected to stress positions perceive themselves as participating in their own torture, and therefore are less likely to rebel against their captors.

Based on the intensity of pain involved, stress positions should more properly be regarded simply as torture, not psychological torture.drone5 (talk) 04:10, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New content & refs added. No deletions. Open to feedback. Communicat (talk) 14:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Content was "sourced" by a fringe site and thus deleted. Edward321 (talk) 02:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

While psychological torture may not leave any lasting physical damage—indeed, this is often one of the motivations for using psychological rather than physical torture—it can result in similar levels of permanent mental damage to its victims.

Psychology is physical (neural connections). Neural connections aren't only physical, they interact with non-psychological (peripheral) bodyparts via biological systems (verification needed). Thus though not considered peripheral/non-psychological neurological (damage not caused by psychological disregulation/connections) damage it is physical damage? A bit like a wrist muscle can be sprained but not torn, thus spraining doesn't interrupt self-healing functionality (though without rest it won't heal, like without therapy psychological damage might not heal).

Maybe?..

While psychological torture may not leave any damage the body can't self-heal, indeed, this is often one of the motivations for using psychological rather than physical torture-it can result in similar levels of permanent mental damage to its victims.

Ybllaw (talk) 16:20, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It already covers this with the phrase "lasting physical damage". --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 15:22, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]