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 the 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] 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.

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.[13][14]

Published books

  • Pérez Sales, Pau (2006). Trauma, culpa y duelo : hacia una psicoterapia integradora, programa de autoformación en psicoterapia de respuestas traumáticas. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer. ISBN 9788433020567. OCLC 752460238.
  • Pérez-Sales, Pau (2017). Psychological torture : definition, evaluation and measurement. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-61694-0. OCLC 954617171.

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. ↑ Pérez-Sales, Pau; Galán-Santamarina, Andrea; Manek, Julia (2023). "Torturing Environments and Migration". Migration and Torture in Today's World: 71–92. doi:10.30687/978-88-6969-635-0/003. ISBN 978-88-6969-636-7.
  9. ↑ Pérez-Sales, Pau; Raquel, González-Rubio; 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. PMC 7890872. PMID 33596870.
  10. ↑ "WHO website" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "MhGAP".
  12. ↑ "Who-Links".
  13. ↑ "Intervention Journal".
  14. ↑ "Editorial Team | Torture". tidsskrift.dk. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
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