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Discovery

Pain of Torture

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:32.0

I'm Professor Irene Tracy from the University of Oxford and today in the BBC's discovery

0:39.0

I'm going to look at the dark side of pain.

0:41.0

Pain which people experience when it's inflicted on them,

0:44.8

situations like torture, or in situations

0:47.5

when we as a society decide to inflict pain on others.

0:51.2

There's no hope.

0:52.2

You say, I don't care. Die or live. Any moment they can

0:56.0

take you and kill you. Any moment. They don't care. You say I don't care.

1:00.0

You've come and take me and kill me. I don't care. Tabia's experience of torture was painful both physically and psychologically.

1:07.0

For him the anticipation and actually just hearing other people being beaten was worse than the beatings themselves.

1:12.0

But when you hear the voice, you feel bad. being beaten was worse than the beatings themselves.

1:13.0

But when you hear the voice, you feel bad and feel afraid,

1:17.0

and I think so sometimes when you punish you, you feel better than hearing the other voices.

1:22.0

Dignified and quietly spoken, he continues to live with

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