Released detainees can manage briefly before delayed trauma closes them off.

Evidence

This is certainly true of the short term, but in the longer term—as the Nazis in the Second World War, and as almost every other power that has ever adopted torture as an instrument of policy, have discovered—it is a double-edged weapon. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 609 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Torture succeeding in the short term proves a double-edged long-term weapon — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 609; Extreme bodily shock can produce relief resembling closure rather than terror — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 482

Broader Connections

• Torture succeeding in the short term proves a double-edged long-term weapon #complicates (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 609