Click Here to Read: The Hoffman Report And the American Psychological Association: Meeting the Challenge of Change by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP on his KSPope website.
Category: APA Ethics and Torture
Our Psychological Crisis: Making Sense of the American Psychological Association’s Collusion with Torture
Why Ethics Codes Fail
The Consequences of Psychology’s Shameful Collusion in Torture
Click Here to Read: The Consequences of Psychology’s Shameful Collusion in Torture: The American Psychological Association pandered to the CIA out of self-interest. In so doing, it betrayed a core ethical spirit—and opened the path to a dangerous future Joseph R. Ssaughter on the Pacific Standard Website on July 24, 2015.
Click Here to Read: Our Psychological Crisis: Making Sense of the American Psychological Association’s Collusion with Torture by Deborah Kory on the Continue reading The Consequences of Psychology’s Shameful Collusion in Torture
Response to the Hoffman Report
Torture, Psychology, and Daniel Inouye: The True Story Behind Psychology’s Role in Torture
Click Here to Read: Torture, Psychology, and Daniel Inouye: The True Story Behind Psychology’s Role in Torture by Bryant Welch on the Huffington Post website On July 17, 2015.
Click Here to Read: Torture, Fear, and American Psychology: An Insider’s Perspective on the Debacle Within the APA by Bryant Welch on the Huffington Post website On December 29, 2014.
Psychologist Implicated in APA’s Torture Report Resigns Academic Post
PsySR Responds to Hoffman Report about APA Collusion
PsySR Responds to Hoffman Report about APA Collusion
In unmistakable terms, the long-awaited Hoffman Report has confirmed longstanding allegations that the American Psychological Association (APA) curried favor with the US Department of Defense (DoD) by colluding to preserve unethical detention and interrogation practices – practices that involved psychologists in torture and abuse. The lengthy and detailed report delineates how APA staff and prominent Association leaders deceived and subverted the will of the membership to adopt and maintain ethics rules for psychologists “that were as closely aligned as possible with DoD policies, guidelines, practices, or preferences, as articulated to APA by these DoD officials.” These “highly permissive” ethics policies, the report unequivocally concludes, were “based on strategy and PR, not ethics analysis.” Continue reading PsySR Responds to Hoffman Report about APA Collusion
The APA Is Dead: And Not Just Because Of APA Ethics Violations
Torture and the APA
Click Here to Read: Correspondence from Dan Aalbers, Armand Cerbone, and Shara Sand on the APA Torture Controversy.
Click Here to Read: Torture, American-Style: The Role of Money in Interrogations By Katherine Eban on the Vanity Fair website on July 14, 2015.
Inside an interrogation room at Guantanamo Bay. By Haraz Ghanbari/AP Photo.