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| Linda |
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Jeopardy
Category: WAR
Answer : An important weapons system.
Question: What is Psychology?
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02.13.2007
Psychologists, Torture and the Fight to Close Gitmo (10 comments )
Art Levine
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/psychologists-torture-an_b_41096.html
........the APA's leadership pushed through a pro-interrogation policy
against the wishes of many of its members;
.....opposition growing within its ranks.
.......dissidents are seeking a moratorium on the APA's cooperation with
military interrogations -- and this week launched a campaign to elect a
leading critic of the policies, Dr. Steven Reisner, a New York psychoanalyst
and faculty member at NYU medical school, to be president of the
organization.
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As Dr. Reisner, a son of tortured Holocaust survivors who is seeking to
overturn the APA policy, has challenged his fellow psychologists at the APA:
I am asking you to reverse the shameful course that the APA has taken
wittingly and unwittingly in participating in interrogation processes that
have rightly been condemned as torture; in aligning our definition of
torture with the US government and military's definitions of torture, which
disregard international human rights obligations ; by tacitly approving the
conditions detainees are being held in by permitting our members to
collaborate with authorities in settings that have in themselves been
condemned as "cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment," by the International
Committee of the Red Cross and a violation against the UN Convention Against
Torture ; and in permitting our ethical obligation: "to benefit those with
whom they work and take care to do no harm" to be subverted... |
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| Dr. Wee Hung Lo |
| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:41 am |
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"Linda" <indomitable2@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ewyAh.2013$tD2.153@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
: As Dr. Reisner, a son of tortured Holocaust survivors who is seeking
to
: overturn the APA policy, has challenged his fellow psychologists at
the APA:
Most ignorant statement made. In what way does being a son of a
"tortured Holocaust survivor" lend credence to anything the guy says?
Does the son of dirt farmers who made millions after he left home have
anything to do with great wealth?
Does the son of multi-millionaire parents who squandered his share of
the family fortune and now lives on skid row and anything to do with
great wealth?
Now, if you take linda, whose father was in a mental institution, and
consider her mental state.......
Or if you take linda and consider that her father might have very well
been mis-diagnosed, and was all but abandoned by his wife, and worse,
who herself had mental issues and scoffed at her children and used the
so-called mental issues of her husband to belittle the children, linda
et al. Then you can understand a little of linda's position, and her
position on the state of psychiatry although that is grossly misplaced
due to her own mental issues as well as physical problem part of which
is old age, who needs elder care. |
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