Click Here To Read: Will the American Psychological Association finally renounce the Nuremberg Defense? on Psyche, Science, and Society, the Blog of Stephen Soldz, on July 26th, 2009.
Category: Controversial
Psychoanalysis And Racism: A New View, UK
Growing Up About Gays
Infected and Affected
Click Here To View: INFECTED and AFFECTED is a visual study of an HIV/AIDS global community on a mission, expressing its emotions, individually and together, in solidarity, reacting to the stigma that surrounds HIV/AIDS. Collectively, these portraits present to the world a mosaic of dignity and courage that challenges stigma.
Open Letter to APA from Amnesty International, National Lawyers Guild, & 10 Others
Open Letter to APA from Amnesty International, National Lawyers Guild, & 10
June 29, 2009
Today 12 human rights, psychology, and health organizations issued the following news release about an open letter to the American Psychological Association.
The organizations are:
American Friends Service Committee, Pacific Southwest Region Amnesty International USA, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Center for Constitutional Rights, Massachusetts Campaign Against Torture (MACAT), National Lawyers Guild, Network of Spiritual Progressives, New York Campaign Against Torture (NYCAT), Physicians for Human Rights, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles, Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles, Psychologists for Social Responsibility. Continue reading Open Letter to APA from Amnesty International, National Lawyers Guild, & 10 Others
Robert Shiller: How Animal Spirits Drive the Economy
A Special Section on the Student Uprising at Columbia University
Click Here To Read: A Special Section on the Student at Columbia University from the Journal of the Association of Psychoanlytic Medicine. The introduction is by Henry Schwartz, followed by Clarice Kestenbaum’s summary of the Robert Liebert presentation in ’69, then current papers by William Glover, Clarice Kestenbaum, Robert Michels, Arlene Kramer Richards, and Barbara Stimmel. Continue reading A Special Section on the Student Uprising at Columbia University
Two APA Letters on Torture
The following open letter was sent by the APA Board of Directors today:
June 18, 2009
An Open Letter from the Board of Directors
Dear Colleague,
As a psychologist and member of the American Psychological Association (APA), you no doubt share our serious concerns about reports regarding the involvement of psychologists in torture and abusive interrogations as part of the Bush administration’ s “war on terror.” We recognize that the issue of psychologist involvement in national security-related investigations has been an extremely difficult and divisive one for our association. We also understand that some of our members continue to be disappointed and others angered by the association’ s actions in this regard. Although APA has had a longstanding policy against psychologist involvement in torture, many members wanted the association to take a strong stand against any involvement of psychologists in national security interrogations during the Bush administration. Continue reading Two APA Letters on Torture
The mind of a mullah: What’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei really thinking?
Click Here To Read: The mind of a mullah: What’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei really thinking? Here’s some quick psychoanalysis By Mark Scheffler on the Global Post website on June 17, 2009.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks while standing under a picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran June 3, 2006. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)
