Pau Pérez-Sales

Pau Pérez-Sales
Born1963 (age 62–63)
Girona. Spain
EducationUniversity of Barcelona (MD), Autonomous University of Madrid (PhD in Psychiatry)
OccupationsPsychiatrist, researcher
Employer(s)Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Hospital La Paz (Madrid)
TitleDirector, Post-Doctoral Degree in Mental Health in Political Violence and Catastrophe; Clinical Director. SiRa Centre
Board member ofEditor-in-Chief of Torture Journal

Pau Perez-Sales is a psychiatrist and former director of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid's Post-Doctoral Degree in Mental Health in Political Violence and Catastrophe (1999–2024)[1]. He is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry Hospital La Paz in Madrid and Clinical 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 a former Chair of the Section on Psychological Consequences of Persecution and Torture of the World Psychiatric Association. He has conducted extensive research on the operational application of scientific research on torture and psychological torture.[7] He coined the term "torturing environments" and developed tools to study them [8][9][10]

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[11], MH-GAP Intervention Guide[12] Rapid Assessment in Emergencies Program[13] and coordinated MHPSS programs for Doctors of the World and Médecins Sans Frontières.

His other research interests include psychotherapy in individual and community trauma,[14][15] transcultural psychiatry,[16] post-traumatic factors, and resilience.[17] He developed the VIVO Questionnaire[18] as an integrative tool for assessing the impact of traumatic experiences on identity and worldviews and has trained and led research in more than 20 countries.[19]

Since the late 1980s, Pérez-Sales has been associated with Liberation Psychology in Latin America,[20][21] living and working in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile and Colombia[22][23] working with grassroot organizations, authoring books and articles[24] related to enforced disappearances,[25] exhumation of mass graves [26] and policies of truth and reparation.[27]

Memberships

Pérez-Sales was a member of the international Steering Committee of the Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering, known as the Méndez Principles, a set of standards for non-coercive interviewing developed between 2018 and 2021.[28]

Since 2010, he has served as Expert Advisor to Spain's National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), part of the Office of the Ombudsman (Defensor del Pueblo), participating in multidisciplinary monitoring visits to detention facilities and producing studies on solitary confinement and ill-treatment.[29]

Pau Perez-Sales is Editor-in-Chief of Torture Journal, a peer-review biomedical and legal Journal published by the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims.[30]

Selected Works

  • (2026). Torturing Environments: Psychological, Clinical and Legal Dimensions. Routledge. ISBN 9781003639350. doi:10.4324/9781003639350.
  • (2022).Violencia y Trauma: del Trabajo comunitario a la psicoterapia. Guía de procesos y programas integrados. Irredento Libros.
  • (2021). Repensar Experiencias. Evaluación (y diseño) de programas psicosociales. Metodologías y Técnicas. Irredento Libros. 15 November 2022.
  • (2020).Cuestionario VIVO. La medida del impacto psicológico de experiencias extremas. Irredento Libros. 15 November 2022. ISBN 978-84-944889-4-8.
  • (2016).Psychological torture : definition, evaluation and measurement. New York: Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1-315-61694-0. OCLC 954617171.
  • (2007).Resistencias contra el Olvido. Trabajo psicosocial en procesos de exhumaciones. Ed GEDISA. 16 November 2007. ISBN 978-84-9784-257-0.
  • (2006).Trauma, culpa y duelo : hacia una psicoterapia integradora, programa de autoformación en psicoterapia de respuestas traumáticas. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer. 2006. ISBN 9788433020567. OCLC 752460238.
  • (2004).Psicología y Psiquiatria Transcultural. Bases prácticas para la acción. Desclee de Brower. 3 February 2004. ISBN 84-330-1844-2.
  • (2001).Chiapas : Fundamentos Psicológicos de una Guerra Contemporánea. GAC/PRODH. 3 February 2001. ISBN 84-88949-41-3.
  • (1999).Actuaciones Psicosociales en Guerra y Violencia Política. Ex-Libris. 3 February 1999.
  • (1998).Muerte y desaparición forzada en la Araucanía: una perspectiva étnica. LOM. 3 February 1998.

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). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  7. ^ Pérez-Sales, Pau (2016). Psychological torture.Definition, Evaluation and Measurement. Routledge Books. London.
  8. ^ Pérez-Sales, Pau (2026). Torturing Environments: Psychological, Clinical and Legal Dimensions. London: Routledge Books. ISBN 9781003639350.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "WHO website" (PDF).
  12. ^ "MhGAP".
  13. ^ "Who-Links".
  14. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (2015). Trauma : del apoyo psicosocial a la psicoterapia : guía de procesos y programa de intervención desde una perspectiva comunitaria. Irredento Libros. ISBN 978-84-942329-8-5.
  15. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (2006). Trauma, culpa y duelo : hacia una psicoterapia integradora programa de autoformación en psicoterapia de respuestas traumáticas. Desclée de Brouwer. ISBN 84-330-2056-0.
  16. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (2004). Psicologia y psiquiatría transcultural : bases prácticas para la acción. Desclée de Brouwer. ISBN 84-330-1844-2.
  17. ^ Pérez-Sales, Pau; Vidales, Diana; Cervellón, Priscila; Vázquez, Carmelo; Gaborit, Mauricio (2005). "Post-traumatic factors and resilience: the role of shelter management and survivours' attitudes after the earthquakes in El Salvador (2001)". Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 15 (5): 368–382. doi:10.1002/casp.827.
  18. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (2020). Cuestionario VIVO. La medida del impacto psicológico de experiencias extremas. Diseño, validación y manual de aplicación. Madrid: Irredento Libros. ISBN 978-84-944889-4-8.
  19. ^ Pérez-Sales, Pau; Eiroa-Orosa, Francisco José; Olivos, Pablo; Barbero-Val, Elena; Fernández-Liria, Alberto; Vergara, María (2012). "Vivo Questionnaire: A Measure of Human Worldviews and Identity in Trauma, Crisis, and Loss—Validation and Preliminary Findings". Journal of Loss and Trauma. 17 (3): 236–259. doi:10.1080/15325024.2011.616828. hdl:2445/119459. S2CID 144837373.
  20. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (1999). Actuaciones Psicosociales en Guerra y Violencia Política. Madrid: Ex Libris. ISBN 978-8495028082.
  21. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau; Bacic, Roberta; Duran, Teresa (1998). Muerte y desaparición forzada en la Araucanía: una perspectiva étnica. LOM.
  22. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (2002). Ahora apuestan al cansancio. Chiapas: Fundamentos Psicologicos de una Guerra Contemporánea. México: GAC/PRODH. ISBN 84-88949-41-3.
  23. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau; Navarro, Susana (2007). Resistencias contra el olvido. Trabajo psicosocial en procesos de exhumaciones en América Latina (Resistances against forgetting. Psychosocial work in exhumation processes in Latin America). Gedisa. ISBN 978-84-9784-257-0.
  24. ^ Grupo Independientes (2021). Encubriendo la tortura. Complicidad de los forenses de la Procuraduría General de la República. Análisis de 54 casos. Irredento Libros. ISBN 978-84-944889-5-5.
  25. ^ Pérez-Sales, Pau; Durán, Teresa; Bacic, R (2000). "Long-term psychosocial consequences in first - degree relatives of people detained - disappeared or executed for political reasons in Chile. A study in Mapuce and Non-Mapuce persons". Psicothema. 12: 109–116.
  26. ^ Pérez-Sales, Pau; Navarro-García, Susana; Fernández-Liria, Alberto (2010). ""Exhumations in Latin America : Current Status and Pending Challenges : A Psychosocial View."". Peace & Conflict Review. 4: 1–16.
  27. ^ Pérez Sales, Pau (2011). "Estudios sociológicos internacionales en población general sobre la percepción de la violencia y reparación a víctimas: revisión de datos y análisis comparado". Superando la violencia colectiva y construyendo cultura de paz. Fundamentos.
  28. ^ "The Mendez Principles on Effective Interviewing". International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  29. ^ "Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención" (in Spanish). Defensor del Pueblo de España. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  30. ^ "Editorial Team | Torture". tidsskrift.dk. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
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