I, er recognise that this conference is largely political, philosophical and legal in its emphasis.
我看到這次會議大部分都是強調 政治 哲學 法律
I hope the psychological side of it can add to it as well.
因此我希望能夠增加 心理學這個視角
I begin with a couple of general speculations about psychology's part in this um, with regard to torture.
首先 我先說幾個 關于心理學在酷刑中作用的一般性推論
Um, I think that er, psychology is both part of the problem and part of the er response if you will.
在我看來 如果你同意的話 心理學既是 問題的一部分 也是對策的一部分
The er, the history of it in terms of the problem has been traced in some of the literature back to at least the 50's when um,
從問題角度來開 它的歷史 歷史文獻表明 可以追溯到 至少50年代
the film a documentary came out, er,
當時有部紀錄片
won the Academy Award Taxi to the Dark Side a profile Deal Heb at McGill University in his research on sensory deprivation in the 50's
《駛向陰霾的出租車》獲得了奧斯卡獎 麥吉爾大學 迪爾教授 在他對50年代感官剝奪的研究中
and has a kind of shocking statement by him saying that the advantage of sensory deprivation is in effect,
做出了一個驚人的言論 他說 感官剝奪的好處
it shows no bruises, er, but it breaks the person.
就是實際上沒有絲毫的瘀傷 卻可以讓人崩潰
He predicted that within two to three days of total sensory deprivation the personality can be destroyed.
他預言 完全感官剝離 兩到三天 可以徹底摧毀人格