Psyche, Science, and Society

Mary Pipher & APA’s Rhea Farberman talk about psychologists and torture on CBC

September 26th, 2007

Psychologist Mary Pipher was on the Canadian CBC yesterday, followed by the APA Communications Director Rhea Farberman giving the usual APA spin afterwards, distorting every issue. The CBC interviewer confronts her pretty hard about the “wiggle room” in the APA’s new resolution involving the phrases “significant harm” and “long-lasting harm.” In general, Farberman is confronted pretty hard, but does respond fairly well. Evidently Farberman is replacing Stephen Behnke as APA’s public spokesperson on the interrogations issue.

Pipher and Farberman are followed by a brief excerpt from a prior interview with Alfred McCoy.

Listen here.

[h/t Jack's Daily Hotchpotch.]

Entry Filed under: CIA, Interrogation, Psychological Torture, SERE, Torture