Shane O’Mara

Professor of Experimental Brain Research, Trinity College Dublin

is a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College Dublin. His latest book is Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation (2015). He lives in Dublin.

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Written by Shane O’Mara

Black-and-white photo of soldiers holding down a man on the ground, pouring water on his face with a cloth covering.

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The interrogator’s soul

An ordinary person becomes a torturer with surprising ease. The hard part comes when it’s time to be human again

Shane O’Mara