Original sentence: Psychological torture is a type of torture that relies not or only in secondary order on the actual harm inflicted (such as corporal punishments) but on psychological effects, mainly emotions, such as fear, shame and guilt.The use of blindfolds and the like also integrate such an element in other punishments.This can occasionally cause severe cardiac harm, even death, but those are not strictly intended, and in the case of torture accidental death would even defeat the purpose
Edited sentence: Many forms of psychological torture methods attempt to destroying the subject's normal self-image by removing them from any kind of control over their environment, creating a state of learned helplessness and depersonalization.Other techniques include sleep deprivation, hooding and other forms of sensory deprivation and forcing the subject to adopt stress positions.Psychological torture is a type of torture that relies only secondarily on any harm inflicted but on psychological effects.There is a continuum between psychological torture and physical torture; the two often overlap in practice.While psychological torture may not leave any lasting physical damage -- indeed, this is often one of the motivations for using psychological rather than physical torture -- it can result in permanent mental damage to its victims