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Drawings of a 54-year-old woman who was politically persecuted and tortured over several weeks.
Notes: (A) The drawing shows the woman’s fixation in a wheel, a frequently used method of torture. (B) The marks correspond to the initial physical pain caused by the torture. However, upon referral 5 years later, these pain locations could no longer be explained by structural anatomical lesions, but only by a kind of a sensitization and memory pain.
