Psyche, Science, and Society

Thank you Emily Whitfield!

August 30th, 2008

Our struiggle to change American Psychological Association policy on interrogations has been given an enormous boost in recent months by our pro bono media consultant. Emily Whitfield, who was  the top press person for the ACLU for many years appeared and volunteered to help us in the month before the APA Convention. Largely, though not exclusively, thanks to her we have had remarkable success getting our message out, including my Op Ed in the Boston Globe, a front page article in the New York Times, another front-pager in the New York Sun, a story on NPR’s All things Considered, an NPR’s Talk of the Nation show, and a Democracy Now! interview. Now we have a Boston Globe editorial. And this is just the beginning.

I would like to extend an enormous “Thank You!” to Emily for all her wonderful efforts in promoting an ethical psychology and ending the regime of torture.

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