After the vote by the APA Council of Representatives to reject the proposal that would have prohibited psychologists from participating in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, several …
The American Psychological Association (APA) has voted to overwhelmingly reject a measure that would have banned its members from participating in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and other US …
Dr. Jean Maria Arrigo was one of three civilian members of an APA task force that concluded psychologists were playing a "valuable and ethical role" in assisting the military. It was later revealed …
Dr. Michael Wessells is a former member of the PENS Task Force. He is a professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at Columbia University and a professor of psychology at Randolph-Macon …
Democracy Now! broadcasts from San Francisco, where the American Psychological Association is set to hold a historic vote at its annual convention. Following a string of exposes revealing that …
In a Democracy Now! national broadcast exclusive, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty speaks for the first time about her experience interviewing Jose Padilla for 22 hours to determine the state …
Jane Mayer of the New Yorker reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross has concluded the CIA's detention and interrogation methods is tantamount to torture. Sources told Mayer that the …
Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban unravels the central role of two CIA-contracted psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, in designing torture tactics for use on detainees held in …
Last month, the Pentagon Inspector General declassified a report that provided concrete evidence that methods developed by the US military for withstanding torture were being used to develop …
The tenet of medicine to do no harm applies to psychologists, yet they are increasingly implicated in abusive interrogations at U.S. military detention facilities like Guantanamo.