Why Torture Doesn’t Work

The Neuroscience of Interrogation

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Specialties, Internal Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Shane O'Mara ISBN: 9780674915534
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: November 30, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Shane O'Mara
ISBN: 9780674915534
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: November 30, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O’Mara’s account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.

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Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O’Mara’s account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.

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