Equally, perhaps one should avoid determinism
From: Mark Burton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Fwd: APA and interrogations - Torture, Psychology, and Daniel Inouye: The True Story Behind Psychology's Role in Torture
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Date: Saturday, 27 June, 2009, 8:46 PM
OK that's alright then, we don't have to do anything about it because it's inevitable.
We have to avoid the twin traps of thinking everything is determined by structure and thinking it all depends on the will.
Dialectics.
CRAIG NEWNES wrote:
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Psy, whether thru psychiatrists or psychologists, has always functioned on behalf of the State when it comes to torture - see the history of Psy's role in the old Soviet Union and, of course, China.
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Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Fwd: APA and interrogations - Torture, Psychology, and Daniel Inouye: The True Story Behind Psychology's Role in Torture
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Torture, Psychology, and Daniel Inouye: The True Story Behind Psychology's Role in Torture
A seventeen-year-old boy is locked in an interrogation cell in Guantanamo. He breaks down crying and says he wants his family. The interrogator senses the boy is psychologically vulnerable and consults with a psychologist. The psychologist has evaluated the boy prior to the questioning and says, "Tell him his family has forgotten him." The psychologist also prescribes "linguistic isolation" (not letting him have contact with anyone who speaks his language.) The boy attempts suicide a few weeks later. On the eve of the boy's trial, the psychologist apparently fearing her testimony will only further implicate her, indicates she will plead the Fifth Amendment if she is called to the stand. The trial is postponed, leaving the boy in further limbo.
Read entire article in the Huffington Post:
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