Pau Pérez-Sales

Pau Perez-Sales is a psychiatrist and director of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid's Post-Doctoral Degree in Mental Health in Political Violence and Catastrophe.

[1] He is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry Hospital La Paz in Madrid and Director of SiR[a], Centre for research, forensic documentation and rehabilitation of ill-treatment and torture victims.

[16] He developed the VIVO Questionnaire[17] as an integrative tool for assessing the impact of traumatic experiences on identity and worldviews and has trained and led research in more than 20 countries.

[18] With more than 20 years of professional experience, Pau Pérez-Sales played a key role in the Liberation Psychology[19] movement in Latin America,[20][21] living and working in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile and Colombia[22] [23] working with community-based organizations and authoring a wide range of books and articles[24] related to enforced disappearances,[25] exhumation of mass graves [26] and policies of truth and reparation.

[27] Pau Perez-Sales is Editor-in-Chief of Torture and former Associate Editor of Intervention International Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict-Affected Areas.