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On Torture and the APA by Benedict Carey in the New York Times with introduction by Jerrold Atlas
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Click Here to Read: Psychologists Vote to End Interrogation Consultations By Benedict Carey from the New York  Times on September 18, 2008.

Introduction: APA Eliminates Torture/Interrogation Work by Jerrold Atlas

After working for several years to overturn the APA embrace of participation in interrogation of detainees/prisoners, the membership finally defeated this oprogram as violative of ethics codes.  Thus, psychologists/psychoanalysts are now reclaiming  their higher moral/etchical purpose and rejecting
the notion that this could be done without violating these concerns. Continue reading On Torture and the APA by Benedict Carey in the New York Times with introduction by Jerrold Atlas

Queen of Darkness: At 90, the psychoanalyst Hanna Segal has spent decades probing the murkiest corners of the human psyche
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Click Here To Read: Queen of Darkness: At 90, the psychoanalyst Hanna Segal has spent decades probing the murkiest corners of the human psyche, an interview by John Henley in The Guardian  from the Website facekraft on September 09, 2008,

She talks to Jon Henley about her search for truth, the healing power of art and what her years in practice have taught her about life.

Hanna Segal

Prenatal Stress and Schizophrenia
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The following article on the research of Dolores Malaspina, chair of our dept of psychiatry at NYU Medical Center, replacing the irreplaceable Bob Cancro, confirms a position I articulated 11 years ago when I was studying the effects of cortisol on the developing fetal neuroaxis. Marta Weinstock’s research in Israel demonstrated ADHD type sx in offspring whose mothers suffered a great deal of stress during pregnancy. There is a great deal of this kind of research involving the effects of war (the devastating invasion of Finland by Russia, the nuclear holocaust of Japan, etc.) I am including some material on this subject from a previous paper of mine given at an international psychiatry conference.
Brian Koehler

Click Here To Read: Material on Prenatal Stress and Schizophrenia by Brian Koehler

Click Here To Read: Offspring of Mothers Exposed to Severe Stress More Likely to Have Schizophrenia, Study Finds (Great Neck, NY – September 08, 2008), This article was adapted by NARSAD with permission of NYU Langone Medical Center/New York University School of Medicine.