The leading American professional group for psychologists secretly worked with the Bush administration to help justify the post-9/11 US detainee torture program, according to a watchdog analysis [PDF] released on Thursday.
The report, written by six leading health professionals and human rights activists, is the first to examine the alleged complicity of the American Psychological Association (APA) in the “enhanced interrogation” program.
Based on an analysis of more than 600 newly disclosed emails, the report found that the APA coordinated with Bush-era government officials – namely in the CIA, White House and Department of Defense – to help ethically justify the interrogation policy in 2004 and 2005, when the program came under increased scrutiny for prisoner abuse by US military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
A series of clandestine meetings with US officials led to the creation of “an APA ethics policy in national security interrogations which comported with then-classified legal guidance authorizing the CIA torture program,” the report’s authors found.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/psychologists-bush-officials-torture-program
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @09:29PM
Psychologists have a lot more training in psychology than psychiatrists do. A PhD psychologist has 8-10 years of psychology classes. A psychiatrist is someone who went to med school and took a handful of psych classes. Who's the fraud? Many psychiatrists just want to shove drugs into their patients, regardless of what they need. I'd take a psychologist any day over a psychiatrist.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @09:35PM
It must take a lot of training to fail med school, settle for psychology, and try to get revenge by sending clients to psychiatrist after psychiatrist in a vain attempt to get prescription drugs prescribed.
(Score: 2) by TGV on Monday May 04 2015, @06:11AM
> A psychiatrist is someone who went to med school and took a handful of psych classes.
True. It also explains why so many of them want to solve all problems by shoving pills, or why another group still believe in psycho-analysis. Most have as much understanding of science and psychology as the average GP. But where your GP gets his/her knowledge updated regularly by, psychiatrists seem to be locked in very conservative circles that certainly won't listen to something as common as psychology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @08:19AM
Personally, I'd take neither, because both are likely to be pseudoscientists. The social 'sciences' are an absolute joke.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday May 04 2015, @11:43AM
Deal. How do you want it: intravenous solution or oral administration?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @12:41PM
I'll have some oral please
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday May 04 2015, @02:02PM
Quack Type 1 has more training in Quackery Type 1 than Quack Type 2.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @08:33PM
Because neuroscience and pharmacology are nothing but quackery. Psychology is an extremely big field and deals with everything involving the brain, nerves, the mind, behavior, drugs and how they affect the mind and behavior, and much, much more. That's all just quackery with no real science or evidence backing it though, right?