APA SANCTIONED BUSH TORTURE POLICIES

Psychologists are considered part of what is commonly known as the "helping" profession. I use the term loosely given the latest revelation that the American Psychological Association (APA) was colluding with the Bush administration in helping torture human beings.

Outside Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds

The Central Intelligence Agency’s health professionals repeatedly criticized the agency’s post-Sept. 11 interrogation program, but their protests were rebuffed by prominent outside psychologists who lent credibility to the program, according to a new report.

The 542-page report, which examines the involvement of the nation’s psychologists and their largest professional organization, the American Psychological Association, with the harsh interrogation programs of the Bush era, raises repeated questions about the collaboration between psychologists and officials at both the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.
 

Editorial: Psychologists Who Greenlighted TortureJULY 10, 2015

The report, completed this month, concludes that some of the association’s top officials, including its ethics director, sought to curry favor with Pentagon officials by seeking to keep the association’s ethics policies in line with the Defense Department’s interrogation policies, while several prominent outside psychologists took actions that aided the C.I.A.’s interrogation program and helped protect it from growing dissent inside the agency.