32 due to the fact that the psyche tolerates grief and anguish up to a limit. When that limit is surpassed, the psyche resorts to other mechanisms. One of them is to divert a major part of that anguish toward the body. This painful psychic energy then becomes physical disease. The malaise concentrates in the body and diminishes in the mind without the individuals realizing that this dissociation has occurred. This mechanism expresses itself both in less severe symptoms (migraines, gastritis, ulcers, dermatitis, gynecological disturbances in women, etc.) as well as in terminal diseases (cancer) and in cardiovascular conditions. Extra-judicial execution causes severe effects on all surviving next of kin, although with differences that have to do with their ties with the victim, the moment of their life, and the age of the individual affected. It is quite difficult for normal mourning to follow execution. For this very reason, often the individual enters a psychopathological state of melancholia in which he or she remains in the past. Feelings of injustice and extreme powerlessness are added due to the impossibility of accepting the death, which impedes processing of the grief. The feeling of powerlessness isolates, sorrow and grief are enclosed, causing a psychological damage that can become chronic and is transmitted from one generation to another. There is emotional dissociation, which severely harms and causes deterioration of family bonds. Forced disappearance generates intra-subjective damage to the family. It causes a sinister duality of thought. The “hope that he or she is still alive” is accompanied by the fantasy, and sometimes the certainty, of horrors suffered by the victim, and is transformed into the “hope that death has put an end to his or her suffering.” This doubt affects the future, turning it into a hopeless transitoriness. To consider a person dead when one did not see that individual die is, at a symbolic level, to have to kill him or her oneself. This is the most subtle and complex mechanism of psychological torture for all the next of kin. There is increased guilt, a loss of potentiality, greater mental and emotional disability which can lead to psychosis. Allowing the next of kin to bury their victims is crucial for the mourning process to commence. The symbolic value of the ritual of vigil and burial is immense, because it indicates the passage between the past and the future, allowing them to bid farewell to someone who was alive and who no longer lives, and thus to begin the task of mourning. The dead person also has to be buried so that he or she does not return as a ghost in nightmares, hallucinations, paranoid anxiety, and delirium. Progress in the investigations is indispensable to facilitate psychological rehabilitation of the next of kin and their re-integration into society. Another unavoidable task is that of the medical-forensic team of identifying the persons buried in common graves. Knowing what happened is a fundamental step for the psyche to commence its task of repair. Events such as the Caracazo cause psychopathological disturbances throughout the household group. The whole structure is affected. They generate sleep and eating disorders, as well as concentration and memory problems; addictions are renewed or worsened. The family becomes more vulnerable to daily problems and is more prone to the risk of accidents and