Comments on: Call for public protests of APA interrogations policy http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/04/30/call-for-public-protests-of-apa-interrogations-policy/ Thoughts by Stephen Soldz on war, peace, politics, psychoanalysis, and research methods Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:59:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Psyche, Science, and Society » Letter to APA President in response to Call for Action http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/04/30/call-for-public-protests-of-apa-interrogations-policy/#comment-66694 Psyche, Science, and Society » Letter to APA President in response to Call for Action Sat, 05 May 2007 01:53:21 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/04/30/call-for-public-protests-of-apa-interrogations-policy/#comment-66694 [...] the Comments, another letter in response to the call for protest to APA: Dear Dr. Brehm: You have an opportunity to make things right.  You have an opportunity to restore [...] [...] the Comments, another letter in response to the call for protest to APA: Dear Dr. Brehm: You have an opportunity to make things right.  You have an opportunity to restore [...]

]]> By: Art Eccleston, Psy.D. http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/04/30/call-for-public-protests-of-apa-interrogations-policy/#comment-66665 Art Eccleston, Psy.D. Fri, 04 May 2007 18:04:22 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/04/30/call-for-public-protests-of-apa-interrogations-policy/#comment-66665 Stephen, here's my message to the APA President: Dear Dr. Brehm: You have an opportunity to make things right. You have an opportunity to restore integrity to the APA with respect to its activities that have supported the immoral, illegal, and unethical interrogations of innocent human beings in U.S. detention centers around the world. I ask you to push APA toward prohibiting psychologists' involvement in the interrogations of detainees happening in Guantanamo and other detention centers. I ask you to remove the "Nuremberg" defense (Standard 1.02) from our Ethical Principles. I ask you to let the world know by your actions that psychologists are not a bunch of barbarians; that we truly care and are compassionate and strive to be healers not destroyers of human psyches. What will you say to your children, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren when they ask you what you did to stop the torture of human beings in U.S. detention centers? What would you say to the children of the detainees who have been tortured under the guidance of psychologists? Do you have the compassion and courage to stop this evil? Stephen, here’s my message to the APA President:

Dear Dr. Brehm:
You have an opportunity to make things right. You have an opportunity to restore integrity to the APA with respect to its activities that have supported the immoral, illegal, and unethical interrogations of innocent human beings in U.S. detention centers around the world.

I ask you to push APA toward prohibiting psychologists’ involvement in the interrogations of detainees happening in Guantanamo and other detention centers.

I ask you to remove the “Nuremberg” defense (Standard 1.02) from our Ethical Principles.

I ask you to let the world know by your actions that psychologists are not a bunch of barbarians; that we truly care and are compassionate and strive to be healers not destroyers of human psyches.

What will you say to your children, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren when they ask you what you did to stop the torture of human beings in U.S. detention centers?

What would you say to the children of the detainees who have been tortured under the guidance of psychologists?

Do you have the compassion and courage to stop this evil?

]]> By: Jeffrey Kaye http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/04/30/call-for-public-protests-of-apa-interrogations-policy/#comment-66446 Jeffrey Kaye Wed, 02 May 2007 21:29:43 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/04/30/call-for-public-protests-of-apa-interrogations-policy/#comment-66446 Stephen, Thanks for helping publicize this call for action by the public at large. The APA believes it is safe in its ivory tower, with its lawyered-up ethics code, its ties to military institutions, and its careerist office holders. But as psychologists we serve the public. What does the public have to say about psychologists participating in torture? Let's hear from them. Stephen, Thanks for helping publicize this call for action by the public at large. The APA believes it is safe in its ivory tower, with its lawyered-up ethics code, its ties to military institutions, and its careerist office holders. But as psychologists we serve the public.

What does the public have to say about psychologists participating in torture? Let’s hear from them.

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