There is actually a lot of information online about this.

There is an informative article in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_and_CIA_interrogation_manuals#cite_note-WP-1

Following are excerpts:





My experience conformed to most of these conditions.

Puffer

I wanted to repost in this thread just to say thanks to everyone who replied.

I know it's a slippery slope for me to withdraw and isolate when I think about all that happened to me. I know when I withdraw and isolate - I get to a point of such depression and desperation to "control" the memories and pain that I justify using negative coping techniques that are harmful to me in many ways.

Being among survivors of CSA/incest helps eradicate the pull to withdraw and isolate but when I think about the torture - that's a pretty easy way/reason to withdraw/isolate all over again. I was scared when I posted this thread that it would turn out to be a very rare occurrence and that I'd find even more reason to withdraw.

I hate that I have torture in common with anyone, but just the same as coming to realize I wasn't the only one sexually abused as a child, it helps to know I wasn't the only one physically tortured.

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I didn't specifically state the ways I was tortured to avoid further triggering but in light of the other posts I think it's enough to say my torture involved burning and needles.

TRIGGER

And saying that helps too.

Thanks guys

I always wondered, what is the difference between torture and physicall abuse or getting beaten up. There was loads of thats stuff in my youth but im not sure under what category it falls. Not that it matters much i gues..

my mother would hold my hand in the fire when i was in 1st grade

i think abuse is anything harmful - a big heading with numerous sub-categories.
i think torture is a sub-category with elements that are more systematic and premeditated and deliberate.
i think getting beat up is another sub-class - more due to the offender's spontaneous loss of control or a reaction to anger, in the heat of the moment, often as a perceived fight or "teaching a lesson".

But of course all of them overlap...
and whatever you all it - it's all bad and leaves long-lasting scars - whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual - often all of the above.
Lee

I'll never understand people.

There was of course the belt, mostly by my father.
But also whatever was close enough, ranging from a chair to kitchen utensils. Kicking, hitting with the fist or throwing me against the wall, not feeding us, kicking us outside for the night even in the middle of the winter sometimes, yelling, burning me with cigarettes, feeding me drunk or forcing me to take pills that would knock me out or would make me lose controll of my body but still be able to feel and hear and see everything, you name it.. Some of it was in drunken rage, sometimes it was to teach me or punish me.
They rented me out to other people too and some of them were sadistic bastards, others tried to 'befriend' me, some saw me more as like i was a doll and just got it done and over with quick. Sometimes they taped me or made pictures. If i didnt do it right or if i complained or cried, boy would i be sorry afterwards..

Yeah - belt for me too. it was always available for spur-of-the moment whippings. and switches in the non-snowy season. that could be more liesurely and premeditated. worse when i had to go out and cut them myself... had to get one strong & supple enuf to satisfy him without killing myself. and enemas - to clean me out because i was so bad and dirty. hated those the most. i think the worst tho was waiting alone in a room for what seemed like forever, knowing he was coming and fearing what was ahead...