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http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jul/10/us-torture-doctors-psychologists-apa-prosecution
This is a very personal topic for me, and not just because of the continuing abuse we suffer from the mental health industry. About 15 years ago I audited a course at Colby College that was taught by an economics professor from Columbia (the nation, not the university). As a young man he had been tortured by military officers trained at Uncle Sam's reviled School of Assassins, better known as the "US Army School of the Americas". His crime was to organize poor people in urban slums.
The "APA" in this story is the American Psychological Association. I don't know what role, if any, either "APA" has played in promoting ME as an imaginary illness. Perhaps other folks here have insight on this.
There are already nearly a thousand comments on the Guardian's website. While a majority of Americans still think torture is just fine as long as they are not on the receiving end, it's clear that many people around the world believe that Western civilization would be a good idea.
This is a very personal topic for me, and not just because of the continuing abuse we suffer from the mental health industry. About 15 years ago I audited a course at Colby College that was taught by an economics professor from Columbia (the nation, not the university). As a young man he had been tortured by military officers trained at Uncle Sam's reviled School of Assassins, better known as the "US Army School of the Americas". His crime was to organize poor people in urban slums.
The "APA" in this story is the American Psychological Association. I don't know what role, if any, either "APA" has played in promoting ME as an imaginary illness. Perhaps other folks here have insight on this.
Guardian said:The largest association of psychologists in the United States is on the brink of a crisis, the Guardian has learned, after an independent review revealed that medical professionals lied and covered up their extensive involvement in post-9/11 torture. The revelation, puncturing years of denials, has already led to at least one leadership firing and creates the potential for loss of licenses and even prosecutions.
...it would not be American military or intelligence interrogators themselves under investigation, nor the senior officials who devised torture policy in the Bush administration, but the psychologists who enabled them.
Human rights-minded psychologists railed for years that the APA had created an environment that was conducive to medical professionals effectively participating in torture.
Yet the organization withstood all public criticism, until New York Times reporter James Risen revealed, based in part on a hoard of emails from a deceased behavioral-science researcher named Scott Gerwehr, the behind-the-scenes ties between psychologists from the APA and their influential counterparts within the CIA and the Pentagon.
There are already nearly a thousand comments on the Guardian's website. While a majority of Americans still think torture is just fine as long as they are not on the receiving end, it's clear that many people around the world believe that Western civilization would be a good idea.