Inge Genefke

Inge Genefke ( born July 6, 1938 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish neurologist. She founded in 1982 the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT ), a device for support of victims of torture, based in Copenhagen, and in 1985, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims ( IRCT ), for which she from 1985 to 1997 as medical director then to 2000 served as general secretary. Focus of their work are the psychotherapeutic treatment of victims of torture and the forensic diagnosis of torture. For their long-standing commitment and she received several honors, including the 1988 Right Livelihood Award.

Life

Inge Genefke was born in 1938 in Frederiksberg, where she also graduated from high school until 1956. Then studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen, where she earned her degree in 1965. In the following years she devoted herself to, among other things, Strasbourg, Paris, Munich, Germany, Switzerland and Italy biochemical research on biogenic amines. From 1968 to 1971 she was then a research fellow at the Institute of Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, before continuing formed from 1972 to 1982 at the University as a specialist in neurology.

Inge Genefke that belongs since 1969 to the Danish section of Amnesty International (AI), was involved in the 1973 begun AI 's campaign against torture, in particular the organization also called for an improvement in the medical care of victims of torture. In 1982, she founded in Copenhagen, the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT ), whose objective is to support victims of torture in the rehabilitation through the collaboration of physicians from various disciplines, physical and occupational therapists, psychologists, nurses and social workers.

Three years after the creation of the RCT they also initiated the establishment of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims ( IRCT ), which was initially responsible for the international activities of the RCT and developed into an international umbrella organization for the support of victims of torture later, with currently over 140 member organizations in over 70 countries. Inge Genefke served from 1985 to 1997 as medical director and then as general secretary and from 2000 as Honorary Secretary General and from 2002 as Ambassador of the IRCT. In the area of ​​research, she devoted herself primarily psychotherapeutic aspects of the care of victims of torture and the forensic diagnosis of torture by burns and electric current through the detection of morphological changes in the skin.

Inge Genefke was married from 1965 to his first wife and married in 1991 to his second wife the doctor Bent Sørensen, who works as a consultant for the IRCT and from 1988 to the UN Committee against Torture was a member until 2000. In the published in 2005 feature film The Secret Life of the Spanish director Isabel Coixet words, which is dedicated to her work, she is represented by the British actress Julie Christie.

Awards

Inge Genefke received several honors, including the 1988 Right Livelihood Award for their efforts. She is also since 1999, commanding officer of the French Legion of Honour urine and urine since 2004 commanding officer of the Chilean Order of Bernardo O'Higgins. The medical faculties of the Universities of Bologna (1989 ) and Copenhagen (1996 ) awarded her an honorary doctorate. The International Press Centre of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed her 1982 Danish woman of the year by the editors of the European editions of Reader's Digest magazine, she was elected to the European of the Year 1999. The Italian city Monteveglio awarded her an honorary citizen.

Named after Inge Genefke has been awarded the $ 10,000 Inge Genefke Award, which is awarded every two years since 2004 by the Anti Torture Support Foundation for outstanding commitment against torture.

Publications (selection)

  • Finn E. Somnier, Inge Genefke: Psychotherapy for Victims of Torture. In: British Journal of Psychiatry. 149 /1986. Royal Medico - Psychological Association, pp. 323-329, ISSN 0007-1250
  • Tonny Karismark, Henrik Klem Thomsen, Lis Danielsen, Aalund Ole, Ole Nielsen, Kristian G Nielsen, Inge Genefke: Immediate Dermal Changes in Pig Skin After Exposure to Moderate Amounts of Heat and Electrical Energy. In: Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 87 (4) / 1986. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 528-532, ISSN 0022- 202X
  • Eugene F. Roth Jr., Inge Lunde, Gudrun Boysen, Inge Genefke: Torture and Its Treatment. In: American Journal of Public Health. 77 (11) / 1987. American Public Health Association, pp. 1404-1406, ISSN 0090-0036
  • Bente Danneskiold - Samsøe, Else Marie Bartels, Inge Genefke: Treatment of Torture Victims - A Longitudinal Clinical Study. In: Torture. 17 (1) / 2007. International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, pp. 11-17, ISSN 1018-8185
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