Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Statements on Torture and Interrogations
2006
Petition to APA President Gerald Koocher: Against Psychologists’ Participation in Interrogation of ‘Enemy Combatants’
June, 2006.
This petition antedates the formal creation of the Coalition. It was written by Coalition member Stephen Soldz.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/483607021#body
[This link is apparently no longer active.]
Open Letter to APA President Sharon Brehm
Common Dreams, June 6, 2007
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0607-06.htm
pdf: http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/openlettertosharonbrehmfinalnp.pdf
This petition was signed by 740 psychologists:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/brehmletter/signatures
Q&A: How the Pentagon’s Inspector General Report Contradicts What the APA Has Said About the Involvement of Psychologists in Abusive Interrogations
Scoop, June 9, 2007.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/whatdod_oig_reportsaysnp.pdf
Press Release: Shocking Report Showing Involvement of US Psychologists in Torture of Military Detainees Requires Emergency Reform of American Psychological Association, Says Coalition of Psychologists
July 17, 2007.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/07/17/psychologists-respond-to-vanity-fair-revelations-on-psychologists-responsibility-for-cia-torture/
Coalition for an Ethical APA analyzes APA Board resolution on interrogations
July 28, 2007.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/07/28/coalition-for-an-ethical-apa-analyzes-apa-board-resolution-on-interrogations/
Letter to Senate Intelligence Committee: Psychologists out of Abusive Interrogations
OpEdNews, November 1, 2007.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_stephen__071101_letter_to_senate_int.htm
This letter was signed by five psychological organizations and 44 individual psychologists.
Analysis of the American Psychological Association’s Frequently Asked Questions Regarding APA’s Policies and Positions on the Use of Torture or Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment During Interrogations
January 16, 2008.
pdf: http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/apa_faq_coalition_comments_v12c.pdf
Ridley-Thomas Resolution and APA/CPA Amendment
Brad Olson, Stephen Soldz, Jean Maria Arrigo, Steven Reisner for the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, February 1, 2008.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/02/06/coaltion-for-an-ethical-apa-on-ridley-thomas-california-health-providers-out-of-inerrogations-bill/
Steven Reisner Statement for APA President
February 17, 2008.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/02/17/steven-reisner-statement-for-apa-president/
Torture After Dark: Torture and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association
Stephen Soldz, Brad Olson, Steven Reisner, Jean Maria Arrigo & Bryant Welch; CounterPunch, July 22, 2008.
http://counterpunch.org/soldz07232008.html
Press Release: Military Psychologist Invokes Right to Remain Silent at Guantánamo Hearing, Refusing to Testify About Abusive Treatment of Detainee: Psychologists and Human Rights Groups to Rally Saturday Against American Psychological Association’s Controversial Torture Policy
August 15, 2008.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/08/15/press-release-military-psychologist-refuses-to-testify-about-abusive-treatment-of-detainee-at-guantanamo/
Appeal to our Colleagues in Turkey from American Psychologists: Stand With Us Against Psychologist Involvement in Torture and Detainee Abuse
September 2, 2008
http://www.ggfp.de/data/appeal_to_colleagues_in_turkey.pdf
Are American Psychological Association staff interfering in the Referendum vote? [An exchange of letters between Coalition member Bryant Welch and APA CEO Norm Anderson.]
September 12, 2008.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/09/12/are-american-psychological-association-staff-interfering-in-the-referendum-vote/
Press Release: American Psychological Association Members Pass Historic Ban on Psychologist Participation in U.S. Detention Facilities
September 17, 2008.
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2008/09/17/apa-members-change-associations-interrogations-policy/
In Spanish: http://www.liber-accion.org/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=331&Itemid=1
Press Release: Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Calls for Independent Investigation of Ties between the American Psychological Association and Defense-Intelligence Establishment
May 5, 2009.
http://www.zcommunications.org/coalition-for-an-ethical-psychology-calls-for-independent-investigation-of-ties-between-the-american-psychological-association-and-defense-intelligence-establishment-by-stephen-ssoldz
Open Letter in Response to the American Psychological Association Board
June 29, 2009. This letter was signed by 13 health, human rights, and religious organizations: Coalition for an Ethical Psychology; Physicians for Human Rights; Psychologists for Social Responsibility; Center for Constitutional Rights; Bill of Rights Defense Committee; Network of Spiritual Progressives; National Lawyers Guild; Amnesty International USA; Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles; American Friends Service Committee, Pacific Southwest Region; Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles, Massachusetts Campaign Against Torture (MACAT), New York Campaign Against Torture (NYCAT).
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/29-15
Press Release: United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Calls on American Psychological Association to Withdraw Psychologists from Guantánamo Detention Camp
August 12, 2009.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/UN-Special-Rapporteur-Call-by-Stephen-Soldz-090812-362.html
Coalition Letter to APA President Goodheart, I
July 26, 2010.
http://www.ethicalpsychology.org/resources/goodheart-7-26-10.php
pdf: http://www.ethicalpsychology.org/resources/goodheart-7-26-10.php
Coalition Open Letter to APA President Goodheart on APA Complicity in Torture Interrogations
August 11, 2010.
http://www.ethicalpsychology.org/resources/goodheart-8-11-10.php