Psyche, Science, and Society

In These Times on drugging, interrogations, and the APA

February 14th, 2007

Writer Mischa Gaus, in In These Times, has a new piece on America’s inhuman interrogations [Interrogations Behind Barbed Wire: Who’s to blame for America’s new torture techniques?]

It raises the question as to whether the detainees are being drugged, in addition to everything else being done to “break them down”. We should distribute it to remind people that we’re not just talking about “ethics codes” and principles, but of horrors most of us can only imagine. And the BSCT psychologists are part of apparatus of terror. If APA had an ounce of ethics in them they would rush to demand a Congressional investigation of just what is being done to these people in our name. If it is benign, let’s find out. But if, as I believe, it is not benign, wouldn’t moral people, and a moral organization want to do everything possible to find out? At least in my concept of morality, that’s a no-brainer. Of course, in five years, the APA has done NOTHING to find out what’s really going on there. In my view “Something’s rotten in Denmark!”

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