Pau Pérez-Sales

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Pau Perez-Sales is a psychiatrist and director of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid's Post-Doctoral Degree in Mental Health in Political Violence and Catastrophe.[1] He is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry Hospital La Paz in Madrid and Director of SiR[a], Centre for research, forensic documentation and rehabilitation of ill-treatment and torture victims.[2][3][4][5]

Education

Pau Perez-Sales holds a degree in medicine at the University of Barcelona and did a speciality in psychiatry at Hospital La Paz, Madrid, In 1994, he received his PhD in Psychiatry from the Autonomous University of Madrid.[6]

Research and career

Pau Pérez-Sales is a former Chair of the Section on Psychological Consequences of Persecution and Torture of the World Psychiatric Association. He has conducted extensive research on the operational application of scientific research on torture and psychological torture.[7] He defined the concept of "torturing Environments" and developed a set of tools to quantify and study them.[8][9]

He worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization, the Inter Agency Standing Committee group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings[10], MH-GAP Intervention Guide[11] Rapid Assessment in Emergencies Program[12] and coordinated MHPSS programs for Doctors of the World and Mediciens Sans Frontier.

His other research interests include psychotherapy in individual and community trauma,[13][14] transcultural psychiatry,[15] post-traumatic factors, and resilience.[16] He developed the VIVO Questionnaire[17] as an integrative tool for assessing the impact of traumatic experiences on identity and worldviews and has trained and led research in more than 20 countries.[18]

With more than 20 years of professional experience, Pau Pérez-Sales played a key role in the

Liberation Psychology[19] movement in Latin America,[20][21] living and working in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile and Colombia[22] [23] working with community-based organizations and authoring a wide range of books and articles[24] related to enforced disappearances,[25] exhumation of mass graves [26] and policies of truth and reparation.[27]

Memberships

Pau Perez-Sales is Editor-in-Chief of Torture and former Associate Editor of Intervention International Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict-Affected Areas.[28][29]

Published books

References

  1. ^ "GAC - Grupo de Accion Comunitaria - Salud Mental, Violencia Política y Derechos Humanos". GAC - Grupo de Accion Comunitaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  2. ^ "Universidad Complutense de Madrid". www.ucm.es. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  3. ^ "Pau Pérez Sales". Dialnet (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  4. ^ "Pau Perez Sales | Red Sira" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  5. ^ Katona, Nora. "Testimonial - Pau Pérez-Sales (World Psychiatric Association) - [ Atlas of Torture ]". startnext.com (in German). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  6. ^ "tbinternet.ohchr.org" (PDF).
  7. ^ Pérez-Salwea, Pau (2016). Psychological torture.Definition, Evaluation and Measurement. Routledge Books. London.
  8. ISBN 978-88-6969-636-7
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  9. PMID 33596870
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  10. ^ "WHO website" (PDF).
  11. ^ "MhGAP".
  12. ^ "Who-Links".
  13. ISBN 978-84-942329-8-5
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  14. ISBN 84-330-2056-0
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  15. ISBN 84-330-1844-2
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  16. doi:10.1002/casp.827
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  17. ISBN 978-84-944889-4-8
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  18. S2CID 144837373
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  19. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (2016). Psychological Torture: Definition, evaluation and measurement. Londres: Routledge Books.
  20. ISBN 978-8495028082
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  21. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau; Bacic, Roberta; Duran, Teresa (1998). Muerte y desaparición forzada en la Araucanía: una perspectiva étnica. LOM.
  22. ISBN 84-88949-41-3
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  23. ISBN 978-84-9784-257-0
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  24. ISBN 978-84-944889-5-5
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  25. ^ Pérez-Sales, Pau; Durán, Teresa; Bacic, R (2000). "Long-term psychosocial consequences in first - degree relatives of people detained - disappeared or executed for political reasons in Chile. A study in Mapuce and Non-Mapuce persons". Psicothema. 12: 109–116.
  26. ^ Pérez-Sales, Pau; Navarro-García, Susana; Fernández-Liria, Alberto (2010). ""Exhumations in Latin America : Current Status and Pending Challenges : A Psychosocial View."". Peace & Conflict Review. 4: 1–16.
  27. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (2011). "Estudios sociológicos internacionales en población general sobre la percepción de la violencia y reparación a víctimas: revisión de datos y análisis comparado". Superando la violencia colectiva y construyendo cultura de paz. Fundamentos.
  28. ^ "Intervention Journal".
  29. ^ "Editorial Team | Torture". tidsskrift.dk. Retrieved 2021-11-17.

External links

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