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From: indomitable2 on 3 Dec 2007 16:06
The Prez of the thoroughly corrupt American Psychological Association,
Sharon Brehm, brazenly substitutes a false for true construction of what's
been/being done and what's gone/going on, and, substitutes false issues
for actual issues.

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=46579&comview=1



Psychologists question torture policy
Many express concern that not enough was done
By Brian Spegele | IDS | Date: 12/3/2007


Beyond the differences of opinion surrounding a controversial anti-torture
resolution passed by the American Psychological Association last summer,
Friday's meeting between Association President Sharon Brehm and concerned
members of the University community demonstrated a disagreement about the
"facts" on torture.

(Yeppers! Criminals, war and otherwise, love to substitute false for
true constructions of their crimes).


About 30 students, faculty members and concerned Bloomington residents
turned up to question Brehm on an anti-torture resolution her organization
approved last summer. That resolution has been criticized by activists as
not having done enough to end the suspected torturing of non-citizen
prisoners.

While the meeting's discussion of the resolution was often heated,
participants did not attack the IU psychology professor personally. Rather,
many expressed a concern that a continued presence by psychologists at
detention centers such as Guantanamo Bay in Cuba legitimizes questioned
government operations there.

President Bush points to the continued psychologists' presence at prisons as
providing guidance to the interrogations, said IU Law professor Dawn Johnsen
during the meeting.

Still, the actual role psychologists play in interrogations was debated
itself. Brehm said psychologists only acted in an advisory role during
questionings, working with interrogators to develop effective strategies
that will elicit "accurate information."

{Liar, liar, pants on fire....Gerry Koocher stated the ultimate goal of US
psychologists is to protect members of one class of people, BY,
contributing to the imprisonment, debilitation, or, even the death of
innocent members of another class of persons, often without innocent
members of the latter class of people ever being aware of the role which US
psychologists played in orchestating their imprisonment, debilitation, or,
death.}


The controversy surrounding the Association's resolution stems from a
rejected moratorium of psychologists at interrogation sites. That amendment
was turned down at the organization's conference last August, but debate
among some psychologists continues. Some former members of the Association
have quit in protest, while hundreds of others are refusing to pay dues,
according to an organization spokesman.

Similar professional organizations such as the American Psychiatric
Association and the American Medical Association already passed resolutions
similar to the psychologist's rejected one.

When questioned about these other policies, Brehm responded those
resolutions largely proved less effective than the regulations set forth by
the American Psychological Association's.

"All of our ethical policies are based on individual responsibility," Brehm
said. "If you violate the behaviors that are prescribed then, if it is a
serious violation, we'll kick you out of the association and you may not be
able to make a living anymore. It is that basic."


{Liar, liar, pants on fire. In 2002, the American Psychological
Association, gutted the APA's ethics code by amending it to include
Section 1.02, otherwise known as the Nuremberg Defense.]

Brehm acknowledged, however, that it's often tough to prove a psychologist's
wrongdoing.

{Liar, liar, pants on fire. The leaders of the American Psychological
Association are UNWILLING, not unable, to kick unethical and criminally
insane members to the curb.}

Despite insistence by some attendees that psychologists played a more
active role in conducting interrogations, Brehm said she thinks
psychologists usually are not even present in interrogation cells. Instead,
Brehm said she thinks psychologists observed interrogations from behind
one-way mirrors. In that role, they can serve as government watchdogs,
ensuring interrogators do not torture prisoners.

{Liar, liar, pants on fire! The American Psychological Association is and
always has been an anenx of the US Department of Defense; therefore,
members of the American Psychological Association have a conflict on
interests which precludes them from being able to watch something which they
are part of.)


"We have great confidence that at least most of our members are really good
people and that they would not do bad things," Brehm said, adding her belief
that psychologists had the ability to be heroes in fighting against torture.

{Liar, liar pants on fire. The American Psychological Association is
corrupt, because, it's members are either, corrupt, unethical and
criminally insane, or, nutjobs with no or an extremely tenuous grasp of
reality)

Those expectations are exactly the problem, said New York University
psychology professor Beth Shinn. The psychologist had been a member of the
American Psychological Association since the 1980's, but resigned following
last August's resolution.

Psychologists are ordinary people who are affected by the situations in
which they find themselves, Shinn said. It's unrealistic to believe that
psychologists will always act as superheroes standing up to the government
in order to stop torture, she said.

A student contingent, led mostly by the activist group Indiana Students
Against War, along with faculty and community organizations, showed up to
question the policy.

Parts of last summer's resolution are too ambiguous, said graduate student
Sandrine Catris. In addition, Brehm's uncertainty on specifics regarding
interrogation sites made it difficult for Catris to take a firm stance on
the issue.

Throughout the meeting, Brehm was uncertain on specifics regarding the
controversial interrogation sites. She said she has never been to detention
centers like Guantanamo Bay's and as a result could not specifically discuss
conditions there.

Regardless, Brehm's stance on the resolution was strong. It's a resolution
she believes proves effective in stopping torture.

"To be a psychologist who treats people, it is a deeply engrained sense of
ethics," Brehm said. "So that's the way we do business as an association."

{Liar, liar, pants on fire----In 2002, the ethicless membership of the
APA gutted the APA's ethic code by amending it to include section 1.02
otherwise known as the Nuremberg Defense}.


From: Frank on 3 Dec 2007 19:12

"indomitable2" <indomitable2(a)somewhere.net> wrote in message
news:13l8rujl0qr0n66(a)corp.supernews.com...
> The Prez of the thoroughly corrupt American Psychological Association,
> Sharon Brehm, brazenly substitutes a false for true construction of
> what's been/being done and what's gone/going on, and, substitutes
> false issues for actual issues.
>

You have a bad case of Parrotitis, not only are you wrong you have no
free thought of your own.

Disease degradation to HyperGraphia, now extended to Parrotitis. Hope
her son never saw this side of her.


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