Raymond: Making the Link – The Inside Story of How Health Professionals...
One of the highlights of the recent Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) conference was the keynote address by Nathaniel Raymond of Physicians for Human Rights entitled Making the Link: The...
View ArticleDoctors of the Dark Side
Psychologist Martha Davis is working on a documentary, Doctors of the Dark Side, for which I was interviewed last spring. The film is set for commercial release in December. But Davis has just...
View ArticleCoalition for an Ethical Psychology Calls for Investigation of Allegations...
NOTE: A PDF of the press release below is available HERE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 14, 2010 Today, Mark Benjamin in Salon.com reports that former American Psychological Association (APA)...
View ArticleInterview with Mark Benjamin on Martin Seligman, resilience, and torture
Last Thursday Mark Benjamin reported in Salon about psychologist and former American Psychological Association President Martin Seligman’s receiving a $31 million sole-source, no bid contract. The...
View ArticleNYT covers ethics complaint against against torture psychologist Mitchell
The New York Times has finally covered last June’s ethics complaint against the CIA’s torture psychologist James Mitchell. BTW, the American Psychological Association is quoted as supporting the...
View ArticleWikileaks adds evidence to claims of Americans tortured by US forces in Iraq
One of the cases that clearly indicated the extent to which prisoner abuse by US forces was rampant in Iraq was the case of Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, two US whistleblowers who discovered that...
View ArticleCoalition Launches Online Timeline Chronicling 9/11 Decade of U.S. Torture...
The Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, of which I’m a founder, has just issued a new Timeline documenting the involvement of psychologists and torture. Here is our Press Release: Coalition Launches...
View ArticleWhite House pressures PJ Crowley to resign over Manning comments
The Obama administration today made commitment to prisoner abuse a central pillar of its policies. State Department spokesperson P. J. Crowley has abruptly resigned after intense pressure from a White...
View ArticleSpeaking on Bradley Manning’s treatment next Wednesday
I will speak at a forum on the treatment of Bradley Manning at Boston University next Wednesday. Also speaking is Manning friend David House: Event Description: Boston University’s Amnesty...
View ArticleThe Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture...
An important forthcoming book The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture Program described by the author: The “war on terror,” brought to light by Freedom of...
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