Social Work Saturday: Bertha Papenheim

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Click Here to Read:  Bertha Papenheim on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  Anna O. on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Bertha Pappenheim 1859 – 1936 by Marion Kaplan on the Encyclopedia website.

Click Here to Read: Anna O. [Bertha Pappenheim] – In the Junk Shop and Other Stories translated by Renate Latimer on the Ariadne Press website.

Click Here to Read: Bertha Pappenheim and Jewish Women from Eastern Europe
by Hanna Kozinska-Witt on the aapj Studies webbsite.

Psychology Sunday: Steven Ellman

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Click Here to Read:  Review of Steven J. Ellman’s When Theories Touch on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Steven Ellman’s Presentation at Symposium 2013 on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Arthur A. Lynch’s review of Steven Ellman’s When Theories Touch on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Steven Ellman highlights some of the Mexico Congress’ main panels on this website.

Click Here to Read: Steven Ellman’s Review of Howard Shevrin’s Subliminal Explorations of Perception, Dreams, and Fantasies: The Pioneering Contributions of Charles Fisher on this website.

On The Senate Select Committee Report on Intelligence from Frank Summers

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The recent release of the Executive Summary of the Senate Select Committee Report on Intelligence has once again raised the distressing issue of psychologists involvement in the Bush Administration torture program and the role of APA.

As psychologists and psychoanalytic clinicians, I think we have two ethical obligations: (1) to do what we can to see that psychologists who have been involved in torture are held accountable for their actions;  and (2) to see that the APA be held responsible for its actions to the extent that it colluded with torture policy and with those who participated in illegal techniques.  Making public the Executive Summary of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the first public admission by the US government that it has conducted a policy of torture in detention centers around the globe.   Continue reading On The Senate Select Committee Report on Intelligence from Frank Summers

CIA on the Couch: Why there would have been no torture without the psychologists

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Click Here to Read: CIA on the Couch: Why there would have been no torture without the psychologists By Steven Reisner on the Slate website on December 12, 2014.

Major national organizations of physicians, psychiatrists, and nurses determined that their ethical obligations prohibited their members from participating in these interrogations, so what was the American Psychological Association doing?