Comments on: Ken Pope: Why I Resigned from the American Psychological Association http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/02/10/ken-pope-why-i-resigned-from-the-american-psychological-association/ Thoughts by Stephen Soldz on war, peace, politics, psychoanalysis, and research methods Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:38:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Rosemary Lyndall Wemm http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/02/10/ken-pope-why-i-resigned-from-the-american-psychological-association/comment-page-1/#comment-160601 Rosemary Lyndall Wemm Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:49:42 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/02/10/ken-pope-why-i-resigned-from-the-american-psychological-association/#comment-160601 These changes provide justification for one of the profession's best kept secrets: psychological-administrative violence and torturer by psychologists towards other psychologists. The collateral damage is an even better kept secret: the distress experienced by colleagues and friends who try to minister to the victim of such abuse. I am currently involved in this capacity and it is tearing me up emotionally. Nothing in my clinical university training ever prepared me for this. These changes provide justification for one of the profession’s best kept secrets: psychological-administrative violence and torturer by psychologists towards other psychologists.

The collateral damage is an even better kept secret: the distress experienced by colleagues and friends who try to minister to the victim of such abuse. I am currently involved in this capacity and it is tearing me up emotionally. Nothing in my clinical university training ever prepared me for this.

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