Iron Curtain Political Prisoners Still Have Psychological Problems
Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 10:02
in Psychology & Sociology
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of East and West Germany, one third of political prisoners of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) still suffer from sleeping disorders, nightmares and irrational fear, say professor Andreas Maercker and PD Matthias Schützwohl, who have examined the post-traumatic consequences in former political prisoners over a period of fifteen years. read more