No Place to Hide: Torture, Psychologists, and the APA
The role that psychologists and the American Psychological Association (APA) have played in the context of detainee abuse and torture is a pressing concern for the profession of psychology and for...
View ArticleDismantling the Master's House: Psychologists and Torture
Amid disturbing reports that psychologists were involved in the abuse and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on Psychological...
View ArticleProtecting Psychologists Who Harm: The APA’s Latest Wrong Turn
Shortly after learning about the American Psychological Association’s (APA) new “Member-Initiated Task Force to Reconcile Policies Related to Psychologists’ Involvement in National Security Settings,”...
View ArticleDr. Frankenstein and the APA's Decade of Monstrosities
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, written nearly 200 years ago, a young scientist brings to life a hideous monster made of body parts collected from slaughterhouses, dissecting rooms, and graveyards....
View ArticleThe Torture Debate Echoes: An Army Psychologist's Job Search
For all of the wrong reasons, torture has been in the national news this past week. First, President Obama nominated John Brennan as the new director of the CIA, a man who embraced and defended the...
View ArticleTorturing the Truth and Whitewashing Hell
The controversy continues regarding retired military psychologist Larry James, who is seeking an executive director position in the College of Education at the University of Missouri. As one of two...
View ArticleNew Evidence Links CIA to APA War-on-Terror Ethics
"The position of the American Psychological Association is clear and unequivocal: For more than 25 years, the association has absolutely condemned any psychologist participation in torture." —...
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