Psychology group backs CIA detainee abuse claim

Source: Associated Press

Jul 10, 4:28 PM EDT
Psychology group backs CIA detainee abuse claim
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Associated Press Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Psychologists in the United States have been warned by their professional group not to take part in torturing detainees in U.S. custody.

Now the American Psychological Association has taken the unprecedented step of supporting an attempt to strip the license of a psychologist accused of overseeing the torture of a CIA detainee.

The APA has told a Texas licensing board in a letter mailed July 1 that the allegations against Dr. James Mitchell represent "patently unethical" actions inconsistent with the organization's ethics guidelines.

If any psychologist who was a member of the APA were found to have committed the acts alleged against Mitchell, "he or she would be expelled from the APA membership," according to the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. APA spokeswoman Rhea Farberman confirmed its contents.







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to practice if they were found to participate in torture.

This isn't a new thing.

"Mitchell is not a member of the American Psychological Association."

Torture is totally endorsed by Dickie Five-Military-Deferments Cheney, and virtually chickenhawk republicons and their overpaid mass corporate media propaganda pimps.

in the Gitmo torture who need to lose their license.

A number of rather prominent psychologists quit the organization after its first bland statement on psychologists participating in interrogations and the like a few years ago.