Click Here to Read: Special Issue: The American Psychological Association and the War on Terror. Issue edited by: Ghislaine Boulanger, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies June 2017: Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 105–160
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Modern Kleinian Clinical Case Seminars with Phee Rosnick and Ann Rudovsky at CFS
Modern Kleinian Clinical Case Seminars
Three-Session Program (6 Contact Hours)
Presenters: Phee Rosnick, PhD and Ann Rudovsky, LCSW
Date: Fridays, April 14, May 12, and June 2, 2017
Time: 1:30-3:30pm
These clinical seminars will focus on the contribution the Modern Kleinians have made to working with patients with more severe pathology. Typically, they struggle with either absent or persecutory internalized objects, cruel superegos, feelings of fragmentation, and a failure of self-object differentiation. Primitive defenses including projective identification, splitting, denial, manic triumph, as well as omnipotent solutions and devaluation are used in an attempt to avoid overwhelming feelings of anxiety, despair, and/or narcissistic humiliation. These patients are prone to develop intense and primitive transferences which in turn provoke disturbing counter- Continue reading Modern Kleinian Clinical Case Seminars with Phee Rosnick and Ann Rudovsky at CFS
Judge Allows Lawsuit Against Psychologists in C.I.A. Torture Case
How a modest contract for ‘applied research’ morphed into the CIA’s brutal interrogation program
Click Here to Read: How a modest contract for ‘applied research’ morphed into the CIA’s brutal interrogation program By Greg Miller in the Washington Post on July 13, 2016.
The general view of the operations center of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is seen during a tour by U.S. President George W. Bush at Liberty Crossing near Tysons Corner in Virginia, June 10, 2005. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
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Click Here to Read: Pentagon Wants Psychologists to End Ban on Interrogation Role By James Risen in The New York Times on January 24, 2016.
The Washington headquarters of the American Psychological Association, which last summer barred psychologists from participating in national security interrogations at facilities like the Guantánamo Bay prison.
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Click Here to Read: Pentagon Curbs Use of Psychologists With Guantánamo Detainees by James Risen in The New York Times on December 31, 2015.
The United States prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2010. Psychologists no longer observe or are involved with detainee interviews at Guantánamo, or provide any feedback to the American military on detainee behavior.
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Accused of Supporting Torture, DePaul University Dean Faces Calls For Resignation
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DePaul University College of Science and Health Dean Gerald Koocher. (Jeff Carrion/DePaul University)