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Chile: mental-health professionals and dictatorship-era torture
Twelve interviews with psychologists trained 1973–1990, a Colegio de Psicólogos ethics file, and a dictatorship-era interview show direct and indirect contributions to interrogations; the Colegio Médico's ethics department (Díaz Paci) characterized medical supervision…
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 5
- Country / period
- Chile, 1973–1990
- Mechanism
- Psychologists and physicians advising interrogation and "national social control" policy; medical supervision of torture
- What is documented
- Twelve interviews with psychologists trained 1973–1990, a Colegio de Psicólogos ethics file, and a dictatorship-era interview show direct and indirect contributions to interrogations; the Colegio Médico's ethics department (Díaz Paci) characterized medical supervision of torture as periodic assessment of the victim's capacity to endure it
- Finding or status
- Peer-reviewed (Revista de Psicología, Universidad de Chile, 2024, Spanish; Última Década, Spanish); Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (2004) recorded 38,254 cases of political imprisonment and torture (Redalyc, Spanish)
- Contrary evidence / limits
- Chilean psychoanalysis's official histories minimize the period (Asclepio 2014); no documented pattern of confining dissidents in psychiatric hospitals
- Label
- SUPPORTED (local-language)
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1973-CL-PSYCHOLOGY-TORTURE