How Does Torture Make You Feel?
September 3rd, 2007
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My psychoanalytic and clinical colleagues are justifiably upset that this reinforces stereotypes about psychoanalysis and clinical work, whereas it is the APA leadership that is promoting objectionable positions keeping psychologists in the interrogations business.
Nonetheless, I think that anything that points out the contradiction between the supposed “helping profession” self-concept of psychology and its documented role in developing, implementing, and promoting techniques of torture and abuse is useful. Its time for psychology as a profession to take an unambiguous to “sever the connection between healers and tormentors once and for all,” as the ACLU said in its August 17, 2007 letter to the APA.
Entry Filed under: APA, Humor, Interrogation, Psychological Torture, Psychology, Torture, Uncategorized
How Does Torture Make You Feel?
September 3rd, 2007
Cartoon from SF, 8-25-07. In 170 papers.
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