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Keep in mind: the APA is also the professional psychological organization that signed-off on torture, and gave it a veneer of medical legitimacy. http://www.ec
by appleflaxen 11y ago
Keep in mind: the APA is also the professional psychological organization that signed-off on torture, and gave it a veneer of medical legitimacy.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/07/terror-torture-and-psychology http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/07/te...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-ps...
- tankenmate 11y agoIn fact there was a minor scandal that senior members of the APA in fact backed CIA rendition / "enhanced interrogation" methods... Hippocratic Oath not withstanding.
- iofj 11y agoAPA (the one from the linked article) - American Psychological Association - no hippocratic oath - www.apa.org APA - American Psychiatric Association - hippocratic oath - www.psychiatry.org According to [1] it was the first of these that it was the psychological association that did this. So a Hippocratic oath violation would not seem to a valid criticism of these guys. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-ps...
- mfoy_ 11y agoWow, I didn't even know there were two APAs... Well, I guess this is why trademark protection is a thing.