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Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Psychological Association, Torture, The Fog of War, 9/11, CIA Torture, Psychologists, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Iraq, Psychology, Persuasion, Iraq War, Robert S. McNamara, Bush Administration Torture, American Soldiers, Vietnam, Bush Enhanced Interrogations, Vietnam Veterans, New York Times, Enhanced Interrogations, Psychologists-Torture, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

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In the Shadows of "Our" Torture

Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Shadow, Carol Smaldino, Holocaust, Carol-Smaldino, Genocide, Psychologists, CIA Torture, Psychology, Human Rights Abuses, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Carl-Jung, Torture, Abu Ghraib, World News
Carol Smaldino

With a kind of paranoia, we deny and project parts of ourselves: in the meantime over the course of history we have felt justified in blaming, hating, fearing, conquering and even torturing.

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YouTube and MySpace Leaves "No Space" for a Generation

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Ipod, Baby Boomers, Myspace, Exhibitionism, Burning Bras, The War in Iraq, Cell Phone Cameras, Psychologists, Madison Avenue, Self-Esteem, Text Messaging, 1970's, The Vietnam War, Dick Cavett, Character, 1960's, Boob Jobs, Richard Nixon, Apathy, Techno Babysitters, Walter Cronkite, Generation, Youtube, Self-Expression, Therapists, Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

A generation suckled on the need to be constantly seen and heard leaves a generation that is heard and seen, but doesn't listen much.

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Bush Memos Suggest Abuse Isn't Torture If a Doctor Is There

Sheri Fink | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Doctors, Detainees, War on Terror, Cia, Medicine, Psychologists, CIA Interrogations, Interrogation, Nuremberg Code, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Politics News
Sheri Fink

Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the memos is their intimation that medical professionals conducted a form of research on the detainees, clearly without their consent.

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The Shrink Society

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Therapy, Psychiastrists, Shrinks, Neurosis, Health, Dependence, Psychologists, Doctors, Psychology, Medicine, Therapists, Living News
Leeat Granek, PhD

The more we go to therapists to deal with our issues, the more incapable we become of dealing with our problems, and the more intolerant we become of others suffering.

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What's With the Cat, and Other Questions about Singles and Their Pets

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Spouse, Singled Out, Pets, Relationships, Cats, Psychologists, Jobs, Compensation, Animals, Marriage, Single People, Stereotypes, Singlism, Bridget Jones, Single Women, Dogs, Cat Lady, Attributions, Living News
Bella DePaulo

One time, a publication that interviewed me about Singled Out sent someone to take a picture of me at home. The photographer asked what my book was ab...

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Psychologists End Guantanamo Collaboration, Will No Longer Help Government In Interrogations

Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Psychologists, Politics News

The nation's leading psychologist's association has voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,...

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America's Psychologists Finally Call For An End To Involvement In Torture

Paul Raeburn | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Psychologists, Bush Administration, War on Terrorism, Guantanamo, Torture, Politics News
Paul Raeburn

The APA declared that "no psychologist should be directly or indirectly involved in any form of detention or interrogation that could lead to psychological or physical harm to a detainee."

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