Psychologists' collusion with US torture limited our ability to decry it anywhere | Dr Steven Miles
by Dr Steven Miles from on (#E0FX)
The American Psychological Association report highlights how it allowed torture clinicians to operate in our ranks. But the impact goes far beyond the group
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The report documenting the role of the American Psychological Association (APA) as an embedded accomplice to torture during the War on Terror is important for its detail, but not for its novelty. The essence of this story has been known for eight years despite APA denials, euphemisms, double-talk and whitewashing; the report simply underscores the truth of what many of us have been saying all along.
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