Click Here to Read: Making a Choice: APA Reform or Business as Usual? A new campaign aims to discredit the Hoffman Report by Roy Eidelson Ph.D. on this Dangerous Ideas blog on the Psychology Today Blogs on October 29, 2015.
Category: APA Ethics and Torture
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CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program
Former U.S. Detainees Sue Psychologists Responsible For CIA Torture Program
Elizabeth Severn, Sándor Ferenczi, and the Origins of Mutual Analysis at The Sándor Ferenczi Center
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The New School For Social Research
Elizabeth Severn, Sándor Ferenczi, and the Origins of Mutual Analysis
Saturday September 19, 2015
Location: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center Continue reading Elizabeth Severn, Sándor Ferenczi, and the Origins of Mutual Analysis at The Sándor Ferenczi Center
BGSP Faculty Member Spearheads Movement to Ban Psychologists From Guantanamo and All National Security Interrogations
What happened to discussion of interrogations? by Bill MacGillvray
Division Forum: I wrote this summary below for my local chapter. Bill
I would like to update everyone who wasn’t able to attend APA Convention in Toronto and especially the Council of Representatives meetings that week. As many of you now know, I assume, the revelations in the New York Times by James Risen many months ago prompted the APA Board of Directors (BoD) to commission an investigation by a Chicago attorney. David Hoffman. The report was leaked to the Times several weeks ago, just before it was to be discussed by a subset of the APA BoD before its general release. Interestingly, this group also invited Steven Reisner and Stephen Soldz to also review and make recommendations to this group. Continue reading What happened to discussion of interrogations? by Bill MacGillvray
Reflections on a Historic APA Convention and the Road Ahead
James Risen: In Sharp Break from Past, APA Set to Vote on Barring Psychologists from Interrogations
Click Here to Read and View: James Risen: In Sharp Break from Past, APA Set to Vote on Barring Psychologists from Interrogations on the Democracy Now website on August 7, 2015.
Click Here to Read: Psychology Group Votes To Ban Members From Taking Part In Interrogations by Dena Temple-Raston on the NPR website on August 7, 2015. Continue reading James Risen: In Sharp Break from Past, APA Set to Vote on Barring Psychologists from Interrogations
These Six Rebel Psychologists Just Won A Long War Against Torture
Click Here to Read and View: These Six Rebel Psychologists Just Won A Long War Against Torture: They were ridiculed and sidelined by the leadership of the American Psychological Association, which they accused of complicity in human rights abuses. When the association voted to ban psychologists from these activities on Friday, the rebels scored an improbable — and emotional — victory by Peter Aldhous on the BuzzFeed website on August 7, 2015.
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