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A '''list of [[torture]] methods and devices''' includes: | A '''list of [[torture]] methods and devices''' includes: | ||
==Psychological torture methods== | ==Psychological torture methods== | ||
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*[[Blackmail]] | * [[Blackmail]] | ||
*[[Shaming]] and public [[humiliation]], | * [[Shaming]] and public [[humiliation]], | ||
* being stripped or displayed naked, | * being stripped or displayed naked, | ||
* public condemnation | * public condemnation | ||
*[[Shunning]] | * [[Shunning]] | ||
*Exploitation of phobias e.g. | * Exploitation of phobias e.g. | ||
:* [[mock execution]] | :* [[mock execution]] | ||
:* leaving arachnophobes in a room full of spiders | :* leaving arachnophobes in a room full of spiders | ||
*Being [[Interrogation scene|subjected to interrogation]] for long periods | * [[Pharmacolgical torture]] | ||
*Extended [[sleep deprivation]] | * Being [[Interrogation scene|subjected to interrogation]] for long periods | ||
*Extended [[solitary confinement]] | * Extended [[sleep deprivation]] | ||
*Partial or total [[sensory deprivation]] | * Extended [[solitary confinement]] | ||
* Partial or total [[sensory deprivation]] | |||
* [[verbal abuse]] | * [[verbal abuse]] | ||
:* Racial, sexual, religious or other against any characteristic of the victim | :* Racial, sexual, religious or other against any characteristic of the victim | ||
Revision as of 22:16, 1 December 2019
A list of torture methods and devices includes:
Psychological torture methods
- Blackmail
- Shaming and public humiliation,
- being stripped or displayed naked,
- public condemnation
- Shunning
- Exploitation of phobias e.g.
- mock execution
- leaving arachnophobes in a room full of spiders
- Pharmacolgical torture
- Being subjected to interrogation for long periods
- Extended sleep deprivation
- Extended solitary confinement
- Partial or total sensory deprivation
- verbal abuse
- Racial, sexual, religious or other against any characteristic of the victim
Physical torture methods
- Beatings and physical violence
- Bondage / Predicament bondage
- Blinding with light
- Boiling
- Bone breaking
- Branding
- Burning
- Castration
- Choking / Strangling
- Crucifixion
- Cutting
- Denailing
- Disfigurement
- Drowning or Water cure see also Dry drowning
- Dunking
- Electric shock
- Flagellation
- Flaying
- Foot roasting
- Foot whipping
- Force-feeding
- Garrotting
- Genital mutilation/circumcision forced circumcision]]
- Glasgow smile
- Hamstringing
- Immurement
- Kneecapping
- Keelhauling
- Limb or finger removal
- Mancuerda
- Oubliette
- Oxygen deprivation
- Peine forte et dure
- Picquet
- Pitchcapping
- Pressing
- Rats
- Sexual assault
- Scalping
- Scaphism
- Sensory deprivation
- Sleep deprivation
- Sound (Extremely high volumes, dynamic range, low frequency, noise intended to interfere with rest, high pitched, cognition and concentration).
- Spanish donkey
- Starvation (forced)
- Strappado / Squassation (also known as "reverse hanging" and "Palestinian hanging")
- Stress positions
- Ta'liq (hanging from a metal bar)
- Tarring and feathering
- Tickle torture
- Tooth extraction
- Torquemada
- Water boarding
- Water torture
- Whipping
Torture devices
Note that the line between "torture method" and "torture device" is often blurred, particularly when a specifically-named implement is but one component of a method. Also, many devices that can be used for torture have mainstream uses, completely unrelated to torture.
- Boot
- Brank
- Brazen bull
- Breaking wheel
- Choke pear
- Crocodile shears
- Cattle prod
- Electroshock weapon
- Foot press
- Gulag
- Heretic's fork
- Instep borer
- Iron Maiden
- Jiá gùn
- Judas Chair
- Kia quen
- Mancuerda
- Parrilla (torture)
- Pau de Arara
- Picana
- Pillory
- Rack
- Scavenger's daughter
- Scold's bridle
- Spanish boot
- Stocks
- Tablillas
- Tean zu
- Thumbscrew
- Tucker telephone
- Zánzh?
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