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Psychoanalytic Dialogues
The International Journal of Relational Perspectives
Volume 18, 2008 - Issue 5
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The Psychodynamics of Torture

Pages 658-670 | Published online: 17 Sep 2008
 

Abstract

In this paper I consider some of the issues raised by the way the American Psychological Association has dealt with the participation of psychologists in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. I set forth some of my experience, and what I feel I learned, from trying to convince the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association to support a moratorium on the participation of psychologists in interrogations of detainees at centers where due process is systematically denied. The paper was written before the Council of Representatives voted down the idea of a moratorium, with a coda describing the outcome.

Notes

1Project for a New American Century was a think tank founded in 1997 by William Kristol and Robert Kagan.

2“…few vices, in Arendl's mind, were more vicious than careerism” (CitationRobin, 2007).

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