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: 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.