2019/01/19 by Myles Balfe · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · Medicine · #Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking #Torture, Ethics, and Law #Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research #Torture #Seriousness #Amateur #Context (archaeology) #Criminology #Psychology #Recreation #Social psychology #Suicide prevention #Human factors and ergonomics #Poison control #Political science #Law #Medicine #Medical emergency #History #Human rights
paper · doi:10.1080/01639625.2019.1568362
openalex publication_date 2019/01/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
This article explores personal management of health related risk in the context of amateur waterboarding torture-in effect, how people manage to ‘survive’ while trying out militarised psychomedical torture tactics for recreational reasons. In particular it examines why ordinary people torture themselves; their understandings of the seriousness of the risks that they are taking; and the strategies that they used to manage risk and ensure survival. 65 amateur waterboarding sessions are examined in total. Findings are contextualised in relation to Stephen Lyng’s theory of edgework.