Pau Pérez-Sales

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 former Chair of the World Psychiatric Association's Section on Psychological Consequences of Persecution and Torture. He has done extensive research on operationalising the scientific research on torture and psychological torture.[7][8] He defined the concept of Torturing Environments,[9][10][11] and developed a set of tools to quantify and study them.[12][13]

As a forensic expert, he has worked on credibility assessment of torture allegations[14] and protocols for documenting psychological torture including sleep deprivation,[15][16][17] the use of threats as ill-treatment and torture,[18] hunger as torture,[19] use of internet and communications technologies[20] and others.

His other research interests include psychotherapy in individual and community trauma,[21][22] transcultural psychiatry[23] post-traumatic factors and resilience.[24] He developed the VIVO questionnaire as an integrative instrument for assessing the impact of trauma experiences on identity and worldviews,[25] and has trained and directed research in over 20 nations.[26]

With more than 20 years of professional experience, Pau Perez-Sales played a pivotal part in Latin America's Psychology of Liberation movement, lived and worked in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile and Colombia working with grassroots organisation authoring a vast production of books and papers[27][28][29][30][31] related to forced-disappearance,[32] exhumation of mass graves[33] and truth and reparation policies.[34]

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[35], MH-GAP Intervention Guide[36] Rapid Assessment in Emergencies Program[37] and coordinated MHPSS programs for Doctors of the World and Mediciens Sans Frontier.

As a forensic expert, he has documented individual and collective torture,[38] including the case of Ester Quintana, Julian Assange, Referendum 1 d'Octubre, Santa Barbara Massacre (Peru) among others.[39]

Memberships

Pau Perez-Sales was an elected member of the Board of the International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR) and member of the Steering Committee of the International Working Group on Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering,[40] Founding member and Past President of the Human Rights Section of the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry.[41][42]

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.[43][44]

Main Books

  • Trauma, Culpa y Duelo. Hacia una psicoterapia integradora (Trauma, Guilt and Grief. Towards an integrative psychotherapy) [45]
  • Psychological Torture: Definition, Evaluation, and Measurement.[46] (Spanish Version: Tortura Psicológica. Definición, Evaluación y Medida[47]

Publications
  • Perez-Sales, P., Fernandez-Liria, A., Florence, B., & Ventevogel, P. (2011). Integrating mental health care into existing systems of health care : during and after complex humanitarian emergencies.[48]
  • Identity and Trauma in Adolescents Within the Context of Political Violence: A Psychosocial and Communitarian View.[49]
  • Vivo Questionnaire: A Measure of Human Worldviews and Identity in Trauma, Crisis, and Loss—Validation and Preliminary Findings.[50]
  • If You Could Only Choose Five Psychotropic Medicines: Updating the Interagency Emergency Health Kit.[51]
  • From sexualized torture and gender-based torture to genderized torture: The urgent need for a conceptual evolution.[52]

References
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  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. Perez Sales, Pau (2017). Psychological Torture: Definition, Evaluation and Measurement (0 ed.). New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315616940. ISBN 978-1-315-61694-0.
  8. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2018). Tortura psicológica: definición, evaluación y medida (in Spanish). Bilbao: Desclee de Brower. ISBN 978-84-330-2884-6. OCLC 971546615.
  9. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2020), "Psychological torture", Research Handbook on Torture, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 432–454, doi:10.4337/9781788113960.00025, ISBN 978-1-78811-396-0, S2CID 242591712, retrieved 2022-01-05
  10. Pérez-Sales, Pau; González-Rubio, Raquel; Mellor-Marsá, Blanca; Martínez-Alés, Gonzalo (2021). "Beyond torture checklists: an exploratory study of the reliability and construct validity of the Torturing Environment Scale (TES)". BMC Public Health. 21 (1): 372. doi:10.1186/s12889-021-10384-w. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 7890872. PMID 33596870.
  11. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Navarro, Miguel; Navarro-Lashayas, Miguel Angel; Plaza, Angeles; Morentin, Benito; Salinas, Oihana Barrios (2018-09-19). "Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain, Part III: 'Five days is enough': the concept of torturing environments". Torture. 26 (3): 13. doi:10.7146/torture.v26i3.109331. ISSN 1997-3322. S2CID 22251297.
  12. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Navarro-Lashayas, Miguel Angel; Plaza, Angeles; Morentin, Benito; Barrios Salinas, Oihana (2016). "Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain, Part III: 'Five days is enough': the concept of torturing environments". Torture: Quarterly Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture. 26 (3): 21–33. ISSN 1997-3322. PMID 28102184.
  13. "irct.org" (PDF).
  14. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Morentin, Benito; Barrenetxea, Olatz; Navarro-Lashayas, Miguel Angel (2018-09-19). "Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain, Part II: Enhanced credibility assessment based on the Istanbul Protocol". Torture. 26 (3): 13. doi:10.7146/torture.v26i3.109330. ISSN 1997-3322. S2CID 22023850.
  15. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2020-01-20). "The 6/24 rule: A review and proposal for an international standard of a minimum of six hours of continuous sleep in detention settings. Torture, 29(2), 1-10". Torture. 29 (3): 82. doi:10.7146/torture.v29i3.118024. ISSN 1997-3322. PMID 31984949. S2CID 210923157.
  16. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Søndergaard, Elna; Shir, Efrat; Cakal, Ergün; Brasholt, Marie (2019-10-30). "Protocol on Medico-Legal Documentation of Sleep Deprivation". Torture. 29 (2): 28–55. doi:10.7146/torture.v29i2.116320. ISSN 1997-3322. PMID 31670703. S2CID 204974396.
  17. Sehwail, Mahmud; Pérez-Sales, Pau; Rasras, Khader M.A; Sehwail, Wisam; Guasch, Alba; Galan, Andrea (2019-10-30). "Sleep deprivation does not work: Epidemiology, impacts and outcomes of incidental and systematic sleep deprivation in a sample of Palestinian detainees". Torture. 29 (2): 56–69. doi:10.7146/torture.v29i2.115381. ISSN 1997-3322. PMID 31670704. S2CID 204967339.
  18. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2021-05-11). "Defining and documenting threats in the context of ill-treatment and torture". Torture. 31 (1): 3–18. doi:10.7146/torture.v31i1.125777. ISSN 1997-3322. PMID 34606474. S2CID 236552652.
  19. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2021-02-10). "Hunger: Deprivation and manipulation of food as a torture method . State of the art in research and ways forward". Torture. 30 (3): 3–19. doi:10.7146/torture.v30i3.123318. ISSN 1997-3322. S2CID 240862305.
  20. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Serra, Laia (2020-05-26). "Internet and communications as elements for CIDT and Torture. Initial reflections in an unexplored field". Torture. 30 (1): 5–22. doi:10.7146/torture.v30i1.120593. ISSN 1997-3322. PMID 32657764. S2CID 219937586.
  21. Pau, Pérez Sales (2015). Trauma : del apoyo psicosocial a la psicoterapia : guía de procesos y programa de intervención desde una perspectiva comunitaria. ISBN 978-84-942329-8-5. OCLC 1127920189.
  22. ed., Pérez Sales, Pau (2006). Trauma, culpa y duelo : hacia una psicoterapia integradora programa de autoformación en psicoterapia de respuestas traumáticas. Desclée de Brouwer. ISBN 84-330-2056-0. OCLC 803659203. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  23. Pau., Pérez-Sales (2004). Psicologia y psiquiatría transcultural : bases prácticas para la acción. Desclée de Brouwer. ISBN 84-330-1844-2. OCLC 54834974.
  24. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Cervellón, Priscilla; Vázquez, Carmelo; Vidales, Diana; Gaborit, Mauricio (2005). "Post-traumatic factors and resilience: the role of shelter management and survivours' attitudes after the earthquakes in El Salvador (2001)". Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 15 (5): 368–382. doi:10.1002/casp.827. ISSN 1099-1298.
  25. Perez-Sales, Pau (2022). Cuestionario VIVO. La medida del impacto psicológico de experiencias extremas. Diseño, validación y manual de aplicación (in Spanish). Madrid: Irredentos Libros. ISBN 978-84-944889-4-8.
  26. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Eiroa-Orosa, Francisco Jose; Olivos, Pablo; Barbero-Val, Elena; Fernández-Liria, Alberto; Vergara, María (2012-05-01). "Vivo Questionnaire: A Measure of Human Worldviews and Identity in Trauma, Crisis, and Loss—Validation and Preliminary Findings". Journal of Loss and Trauma. 17 (3): 236–259. doi:10.1080/15325024.2011.616828. hdl:2445/119459. ISSN 1532-5024. S2CID 144837373.
  27. Perez-Sales, Pau (1999). Actuaciones Psicosociales en Guerra y Violencia Política (in Spanish). Madrid: Ex-Libris. ISBN 978-8495028082.
  28. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Bacic, Roberta; Duran, Teresa (1998). Muerte y desaparición forzada en la Araucanía : una aproximación étnica (in Spanish). Temuco (Chile): LOM / Universidad Católica de Chile.
  29. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2002). Ahora apuestan al cansancio... Chiapas: Fundamentos psicológicos de una guerra contemporánea. [Now Bet on Fatigue. Chiapas: Psychological basis of Contemporary War] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico: GAC/PRODH, México. ISBN 84-88949-41-3.
  30. Perez-Sales, Pau; Navarro, Susana (2007). Resistencias contra el olvido. Trabajo psicosocial en procesos de exhumaciones en América Latina (Resistances against forgetting. Psychosocial work in exhumation processes in Latin America) (PDF). Barcelona: Gedisa. ISBN 978-84-9784-257-0.
  31. Grupo Independientes. (2021). Encubriendo la tortura. Complicidad de los forenses de la Procuraduría General de la República. Análisis de 54 casos (in Spanish). Mexico: Irredentos Libros. ISBN 978-84-944889-5-5.
  32. Pérez-Sales, Pau. "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. ISSN 0214-9915.
  33. Pérez-sales, Pau. "Exhumations in Latin America : Current Status and Pending Challenges : A Psychosocial View". Peace & Conflict Review. 4: 1–16.
  34. 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 (International Sociological Studies in general population on the perception of violence and reparation to victims: data review and comparison) (in Spanish). Madrid: En Páez, D, Martín Beristáin, C, González, J.L, Basabe, N y De Rivera, J. Superando la violencia colectiva y construyendo cultura de paz. Fundamentos.
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  46. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2017). Psychological torture : definition, evaluation and measurement. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-61694-0. OCLC 954617171.
  47. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2016). Tortura psicológica : definición, evaluación y medidas. ISBN 978-84-330-2884-6. OCLC 971546615.
  48. Perez-Sales, Pau; Fernandez-Liria, Alberto; Baingana, Florence; Ventevogel, Peter. "Integrating mental health care into existing systems of health care : during and after complex humanitarian emergencies". Intervention. 9 (3): 345–357.
  49. Pérez-Sales, Pau (2010-12-01). "Identity and Trauma in Adolescents Within the Context of Political Violence: A Psychosocial and Communitarian View". Clinical Social Work Journal. 38 (4): 408–417. doi:10.1007/s10615-010-0262-9. ISSN 1573-3343. S2CID 144826103.
  50. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Eiroa-Orosa, Francisco Jose; Olivos, Pablo; Barbero-Val, Elena; Fernández-Liria, Alberto; Vergara, María (2012-05-01). "Vivo Questionnaire: A Measure of Human Worldviews and Identity in Trauma, Crisis, and Loss—Validation and Preliminary Findings". Journal of Loss and Trauma. 17 (3): 236–259. doi:10.1080/15325024.2011.616828. hdl:2445/119459. ISSN 1532-5024. S2CID 144837373.
  51. Ommeren, Mark van; Barbui, Corrado; Jong, Kaz de; Dua, Tarun; Jones, Lynne; Perez-Sales, Pau; Schilperoord, Marian; Ventevogel, Peter; Yasamy, M. Taghi; Saxena, Shekhar (2011-05-03). "If You Could Only Choose Five Psychotropic Medicines: Updating the Interagency Emergency Health Kit". PLOS Medicine. 8 (5): e1001030. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001030. ISSN 1549-1676. PMC 3086873. PMID 21559326.
  52. Pérez-Sales, Pau; Zraly, Maggie (2018-11-27). "From sexualized torture and gender-based torture to genderized torture: The urgent need for a conceptual evolution". Torture. 28 (3): 1–13. doi:10.7146/torture.v28i3.111179. ISSN 1997-3322. PMID 30649838. S2CID 58615656.
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