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Pain of Torture

Pain of Torture

Does knowing that someone is inflicting pain on you deliberately make the pain worse?

Discovery · BBC World Service

February 12, 201826m 48s

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Show Notes

Does knowing that someone is inflicting pain on you deliberately make the pain worse? Professor Irene Tracey meets survivors of torture and examines the dark side of pain.

Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald

(Photo: A woman mourns during the funeral procession of Abdulrassul Hujairi. Credit: Joseph Eid/AFP)