Click Here to Read: Referendum on Torture: Debate Over Role of Psychologists in Military Interrogations Comes to a Head at APA Annual Convention on the Democracy Now! website on August 18 2008.
Category: Controversial
An Interview with Fern Cohen, Ph.D. on whether Psychoanalysis is Dead
Psychoanalysts Urge Members of House Energy and Commerce Committee to Recognize and Protect the Right to Health Information Privacy in the PRO(TECH)T Act
Press Release: Military Psychologist Refuses to Testify About Abusive Treatment of Detainee at Guantánamo by Stephen Soldz
Click Here To Read: Press Release: Military Psychologist Refuses to Testify About Abusive Treatment of Detainee at Guantánamo by Stephen Soldz which appeared on Psyche, Science, and Society, the Blog of Stephen Soldz on August 15th, 2008.
Click Here to Read: Psychologists Clash on Aiding Interrogations By Benedict Cary which appeared in the New York Times on August 15, 2008.
Why Soldiers Rape by Helen Benedict
Inner Life of Leaders: Q&A with Abraham Zaleznik by Sean Silverthorne
A Neglected Problem About Clinical Evidence By Dale Boesky
Think Again by Stanley Fish
Chronicle of Higher Ed: Psychology and Torture by David Glenn
Collective Psychological Processes in Anti-Semitism by Avner Falk
Racism and anti-Semitism are highly complex human phenomena, having multiple causes including psychological ones. The latter are of paramount importance for understanding anti-Semitism. Over the past few decades, the focus of the psychoanalytic study of anti-Semitism has gradually shifted from the individual to the group. The earlier emphasis on unconscious individual defensive processes has been augmented by a new emphasis on the large group’s psychological processes – for example, its conscious and unconscious needs for identity, boundaries, allies – and enemies. Although, like social-science and human-science theories in general, psychoanalytic theories cannot be tested with the same rigor as natural-science theories, they can help illuminate such crucial human issues as war and peace, politics, racism, anti-Semitism, and genocide.
Click Here to Read: Collective Psychological Processes in Anti-Semitism by Avner Falk. From Jewish Political Studies Review 18:1-2, Spring 2006 .