Psychologists Protest APA’s Position On Interrogations | MetaFilter
2008/02/19/0950 by farkingaRTFA: http://www.metafilter.com/68915/Psychologists-Prot…
Citing the organization’s “sharp shift in values and direction,” Ken Pope, prominent member of the American Psychological Association (and a former chair of its Ethics Committee), resigned his membership on February 6. He’s the latest of a growing number of professional psychologists who have quit APA in protest of its position on the use of psychologists in government interrogations in the “War on Terror.”
The APA has stopped short of banning members from conducting torture, and instead has issued statements that prohibit members from performing specific actions during interrogation. It has become clear that certain APA members are actively involved in torture on behalf of the US government, and although the APA has been pressed on the issue, the APA has remained silent. Therefore, the statements by the APA that would condemn torture have been shown to be hollow.
In all, this amounts to a tacit approval of torture practices by APA members.
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