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In addition to direct effects on detainees, interrogators, intelligence agencies, and law, the U.S. torture program had additional corrupting influences on other aspects of society. This chapter explores the effects that the torture... more
In addition to direct effects on detainees, interrogators, intelligence agencies, and law, the U.S. torture program had additional corrupting influences on other aspects of society. This chapter explores the effects that the torture program had on civil society by exploring its effects on the profession of psychology and on the largest U.S. psychological professional organization, the American Psychological Association (APA). We briefly summarize public knowledge regarding the involvement of psychologists in the CIA and DoD "enhanced interrogation" torture programs. We then describe the public response of the APA as news of this knowledge emerged. However, the public response did not match the APA’s behind-the-scenes actions, as was revealed by a 2015 Independent Review of APA leaders' potential complicity with the torture program conducted by Chicago attorney David Hoffman. The resultant Hoffman Report found a pattern of backchannel collaboration ("collusion"...
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... Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice. Grand, Stanley; Feiner, Kenneth; Reisner, Steven. Wilson, Arnold (Ed); Gedo, John E. (Ed), (1993). Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory,... more
... Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice. Grand, Stanley; Feiner, Kenneth; Reisner, Steven. Wilson, Arnold (Ed); Gedo, John E. (Ed), (1993). Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice, (pp. 48-75). ...
... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Eros reclaimed: Recovering Freud's relational theory. Relational perspectives in psychoanalysis. Reisner, Steven. Skolnick, Neil J. (Ed); Warshaw, Susan C. (Ed), (1992). Relational... more
... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Eros reclaimed: Recovering Freud's relational theory. Relational perspectives in psychoanalysis. Reisner, Steven. Skolnick, Neil J. (Ed); Warshaw, Susan C. (Ed), (1992). Relational perspectives in psychoanalysis, (pp. 281-312). ...
The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from one of painful, formative experience, to one of injustice and the imperative to rectify an untoward event. Journalists, politicians, and ...
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Freud's psychoanalysis has been criticized as quintessentially twentieth century, reflecting a Zeitgeist of scientism, authoritarianism, and modernism that is being challenged and transformed as we enter the twenty-first century.... more
Freud's psychoanalysis has been criticized as quintessentially twentieth century, reflecting a Zeitgeist of scientism, authoritarianism, and modernism that is being challenged and transformed as we enter the twenty-first century. Yet embedded within the modernist twentieth-century ...
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The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from one of painful, formative experience, to one of injustice and the imperative to rectify an untoward event. Journalists, politicians, and ...
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Contemporary psychoanalytic theory is in conflict as to what constitutes its basic motivational assumptions. Classical Freudian metapsychology has been chal-lenged by self and relational theorists as outdatedly "physicochemical"... more
Contemporary psychoanalytic theory is in conflict as to what constitutes its basic motivational assumptions. Classical Freudian metapsychology has been chal-lenged by self and relational theorists as outdatedly "physicochemical" (Schafer, 1976). In this article, it is argued that ...
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Holt's critique of my article is based on fundamental differences in our approach to Freud studies and its relevance to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. In my rejoinder I argue that Holt's view of Freud's... more
Holt's critique of my article is based on fundamental differences in our approach to Freud studies and its relevance to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. In my rejoinder I argue that Holt's view of Freud's metapsychology is biased along two dimensions: He accepts ...
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Holt's critique of my article is based on fundamental differences in our approach to Freud studies and its relevance to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. In my rejoinder I argue that Holt's view of Freud's... more
Holt's critique of my article is based on fundamental differences in our approach to Freud studies and its relevance to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. In my rejoinder I argue that Holt's view of Freud's metapsychology is biased along two dimensions: He accepts ...
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Holt's critique of my article is based on fundamental differences in our approach to Freud studies and its relevance to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. In my rejoinder I argue that Holt's view of Freud's... more
Holt's critique of my article is based on fundamental differences in our approach to Freud studies and its relevance to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. In my rejoinder I argue that Holt's view of Freud's metapsychology is biased along two dimensions: He accepts ...