01:59 am - APA Complicity in Abuse and Torture
A message from the Psychologists For Social Responsibility discussion group brings good news, and bad. A majority of the APA membership have made a significant step toward redeeming the organization, at least on the issue of participating in -- and thus, tacitly condoning -- inhumane treatment of detainees.
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A long list of background links on the issue can be found here:
Psychologists and interrogations - Key articles
A wholesale changing-of-the-guard at the APA's top levels is most certainly in order, and may yet happen. If so, the organization may well become significantly more amenable to actions against ongoing patterns of abuse and torture not connected with "national security," such as the atrocities perpetrated by the Judge Rotenberg Center and its widespread ideological ilk.
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