Statement from APA in response to April 30, 2015 New York Times article

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2015 APA Ethics and Torture, General News

Click here to Read: American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says on this website.

Click Here to Read: Saying it Again: Psychologists May Never Participate in Torture on the American Psychology Association website.

Click Here to Read: Two psychologists help run CIA interrogations by By Ken Dilanian on the Red Raiders website on December 11, 2014.

April 30, 2015
APA Public and Member Communications
Statement from APA in response to April 30, 2015 New York Times article

Members have contacted the APA Central Office expressing concerns about this morning’s New York Times article which recirculated allegations about APA support for the CIA’s torture program. We understand those concerns. APA senior governance and staff take the allegations of support for torture and the public misunderstanding they have created very seriously. Continue reading Statement from APA in response to April 30, 2015 New York Times article

The Pregnant Therapist

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2015 General News

Click Here to Read: The Pregnant Therapist By Jessica Zucker in The New York Times on April 28, 2015.

Red Cross chief slams his own group’s WWII

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2015 General News

Click Here to Read: Red Cross chief slams his own group’s WWII record BY JTA and Times of Israel Staff in the Times of Israel on April 29, 2015.

WJC President Ronald S. Lauder and ICRC President Peter Maurer at Geneva event April 28, 2015 marking 70 years since the liberation of Nazi camps. (Photo credit: courtesy)

Photography Friday: Leticia Franieck

By Tamar SchwartzApril 30, 2015 Photography, Uncategorized Leticia Franieck, Photography Friday

Cape Roca, by Leticia Franieck. The 16th-century Portuguese poet Luís de Camões described Cape Roca as the place “Where the land ends and the sea begin.”

If you would like to have your photography considered for internationalpsychoanalysis.net’s Photography Friday, please send your jpegs to Joel Seligmann, the Photography Editor.

Philosophy Thursday: Hermann Cohen

By Tamar SchwartzApril 30, 2015 Philosophy Thursday

Click Here to Read: Hermann Cohen on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Hermann Cohen on the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy Website.

Click Here to Read: Hermann Cohen and the quest for Protestant Judaism by David N. Myers on the UCLA College of Social Sciences website. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Hermann Cohen

American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says

By Tamar SchwartzApril 30, 2015 General News

Click Here to Read: American Psychological Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says By James Risen in The New York Times on April 30, 2015.

An American soldier patrolling outside Abu Ghraib prison in 2005. The public disclosure of images of prisoners being abused there prompted debate about the way the United States was treating detainees. CreditJohn Moore/Getty Images

The Life of an Unknown Man

By Tamar SchwartzApril 30, 2015 Books

Click Here to Read: Review of The Life of an Unknown Man by Andreï Makine, Reviewed by Viv Groskop on the Guardian Website on October 23, 2010.

Andrei Makine ‘has the wonderful flavour of a contemporary Chekhov’. Photograph: Getty Images

Two Worlds, One Idea

By Tamar SchwartzApril 30, 2015 Books

Click Here to Read: Two Worlds, One Idea: Ten Years of Correspondence between AIUSA Group 11 and Zinovii Krasivskyj, Ukrainian activist and political prisoner of the USSR exiled in Siberia on the Amnesty International Group 11 New York Website.