Psychology Sunday: Steve Appelbaum

Click Here to Read: Evocativeness: Moving and Persuasive Interventions in Psychotherapy by Stephen A. Appelbaum, Reviewed By Marilyn Metzl in American Psychological Association Division 39 Reviews, Summer 2002, pp. 47-49.

Click Here to Read: Unexplained Healing Techniques: Review of The Mystery of Healing
by Stephen A. Appelbaum, PhD, reviewed by Jule Klotter on the tldp website.

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Division APA policy on political speech

INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC BY A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS DANGEROUS

We, the undersigned mental health professionals and psychoanalysts, believe that inflammatory rhetoric on the part of any United States Presidential candidate is dangerous and
psychologically unhealthy to the group process of our country. Vitriolic incitement to aggressive action by a public figure is likely to stir up those in our gun-filled culture who
are angry and psychologically prone to acting out in horrible ways.

A candidate who does not discourage but encourages outbursts such as “Lock her up,” “Kill her,” “Hang her” at his public rallies, who states that he wishes to “punch out” someone, Continue reading Division APA policy on political speech