{"id":194501,"date":"2008-09-18T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/18\/american-psychological-association-votes-to-prohibit-helping-torture\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T22:37:00","slug":"american-psychological-association-votes-to-prohibit-helping-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/18\/american-psychological-association-votes-to-prohibit-helping-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"American Psychological Association Votes to Prohibit Helping Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The depressing part is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/18\/us\/18psych.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">vote was far closer than it should have been<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The vote, 8,792 to 6,157 in a mail-in balloting concluded Monday, may help to settle a long debate within the profession over the ethics of such work. Psychologists have helped military and C.I.A. interrogators evaluate detainees, plan questioning strategy and judge its psychological costs. The association\u2019s ethics code, while condemning a list of coercive techniques adopted in the Bush administration\u2019s antiterrorism campaign, has allowed some consultation \u201cfor national security-related purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The referendum, first posted on the Internet as a petition in May, prohibits psychologists from working in settings where \u201cpersons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the U.N. Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the U.S. Constitution, where appropriate,\u201d unless they represent a detainee or an independent third party. The association\u2019s bylaws require that it institute the policy at the next annual meeting, in August 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The depressing part is that the vote was far closer than it should have been: The vote, 8,792 to 6,157 in a mail-in balloting concluded Monday, may help to settle a long debate within the profession over the ethics of such work. Psychologists have helped military and C.I.A. interrogators evaluate detainees, plan questioning strategy and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}