Crosby, Sondra - short clip - RetraumatizingDetainees

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-	It's certainly unique in my 20 years of experience.	0:03
	And in talking to colleagues, I think there's just a,	0:06
	there's been so much trauma done to these men.	0:12
	Many of which is public with the executive summary	0:15
	of the Senate torture report that was released in 2014	0:17
	and perhaps the high level of trauma, the culture	0:23
	the religion, just so many things mixed together.	0:28
	I think make it, make it very unique.	0:31
	And you know, a lot of these men	0:35
	I mean, they really believe	0:44
	in their causes and just quite frankly, they're likable	0:45
	they're likable people.	0:48
	But their level of trauma is so high	0:53
	and it's really hard to know how to treat it.	0:56
	Especially in the context of ongoing trauma.	0:58
	Guantanamo, just being in Guantanamo is a trigger	1:05
	for mental health symptoms.	1:08
	And so it's, it's hard to, you know, the first tenet	1:10
	of treating trauma is to provide a safe environment.	1:15
	And none of these men are in a safe environment.	1:18
	They can be triggered by a sound, you know,	1:21
	a rattle of a chain, somebody's clothing, a wristwatch	1:24
	a noise, a smell, and it's just, it's ongoing.	1:29
	And it brings them back to the torture	1:33
	that was occurring early on.	1:36

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Title:

Crosby, Sondra - short clip - RetraumatizingDetainees

Date:

July 3, 2016

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Crosby, Sondra

Role:

Health Care

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Physician, Ethicist, and Expert on torture
Sondra Crosby, female, age 56, is co-founder and co-director of the Boston University Forensic Medical Evaluation Group, which provides medical forensic documentation of torture and other physical abuse. She was one of the first civilian doctors permitted to independently examine detainees while still in Guantanamo.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:00:41

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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