RAPE, TORTURE, AND TRAUMATIZATION OF BOSNIAN AND CROATIAN WOMEN - PSYCHOLOGICAL SEQUELAE

Authors
KOZARICKOVACIC D FOLNEGOVICSMALC V SKRINJARIC J SZAJNBERG NM MARUSIC A
Citation
D. Kozarickovacic et al., RAPE, TORTURE, AND TRAUMATIZATION OF BOSNIAN AND CROATIAN WOMEN - PSYCHOLOGICAL SEQUELAE, American journal of orthopsychiatry, 65(3), 1995, pp. 428-433
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry
Journal title
American journal of orthopsychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029432
Volume
65
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
428 - 433
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9432(1995)65:3<428:RTATOB>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
The first 25 Bosnian women admitted to the Zagreb Obstetrics and Gynae cological Clinic or its associated regional psychiatric centers were a ssessed using both clinical and post-traumatic stress disorder intervi ews. Most of the women had been multiply traumatized; all had been rep eatedly raped, Psychological status was assessed for those women who w ere not impregnated, for those impregnated who received abortions, and for those impregnated who carried the fetus to term.