Psychologists

Learning From the Fort Hood Tragedy: Comments from an Expert on Suicide and Violence

Lisa Firestone | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living


Lisa Firestone

This misfortune points toward major flaws in our mental health system for military personnel, including the mental health of psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors treating our troops.

Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


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.

In the Shadows of "Our" Torture

Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.13.2009 | World


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.

YouTube and MySpace Leaves "No Space" for a Generation

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living


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.

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

Sheri Fink | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics


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.

The Shrink Society

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living


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.

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

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living


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...

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

Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics


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,...

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

Paul Raeburn | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics


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."