Open Letter to President Sharon Brehm
American Psychological Association

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Initial Signers

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Stephen Soldz, Director, Center for Research, Evaluation, and Program Development & Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis; University of Massachusetts, Boston

Brad Olson, Assistant Research Professor, Northwestern University

Steven Reisner, Senior Faculty and Supervisor, International Trauma Studies Program, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School

Mike Wessells, Former Member, PENS Task Force; Columbia University

Rhoda Unger, Brandeis University

Uwe Jacobs, Director, Survivors International, San Francisco

Ed Tejirian, New York

Bernice Lott, University of Rhode Island

Jeffrey Kaye, San Francisco

Elliot Mishler, Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Ghislaine Boulanger, Steering Committee, withholdapadues.com

Morton Deutsch, E.L. Thorndike Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Director Emeritus of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) Teachers College, Columbia University

Faye J Crosby, Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Marc Pilisuk, Professor Emeritus, the University of California; Professor, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center

Marybeth Shinn, Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy, New York University

Stephan L. Chorover, Professor of Psychology, MIT

Mary Brydon-Miller, Director, Action Research Center, Associate Professor, Educational Studies and Urban Educational Leadership, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, University of Cincinnati

M. Brinton Lykes, Associate Director, Center for Human Rights & International Justice, Associate Dean, Lynch School of Education, Boston College

Ben Harris, Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire

Barbara Gutek, PrEller Professor of Women and Leadership, Department of Management and Organizations, University of Arizona

Frank Summers, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School

Kevin Lanning, Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University

Alice Shaw, San Francisco

Lila Braine, Professor Emerita, Barnard College, Columbia University

Stuart Oskamp, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University

Linda M. Woolf, Professor of Psychology and International Human Rights, Webster University

Arlene Lu Steinberg, President, Division 39 Section IX, APA: Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility

Lew Aron, Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Scot D. Evans, Community Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University

Susan Torres-Harding, Roosevelt University

Allen L. Roland, Sonoma, CA

Emily K. Filardo, Director, Women's Studies, & Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Kean University

Maram Hallak, Borough of Manhattan Community College; the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP)

Anthony J. Marsella, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii

Barbara Eisold, New York Medical College

Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Department of Psychology, Boston University

Chrysoula K.E. Fantaousakis, Kean University

Karen Rosica, Faculty, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Director of Special Projects, SalusWorld.org

Hal S. Bertilson, University of Wisconsin-Superior

Ibrahim Kira, Access Community Health and Research Center, Dearborn, MI

Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School

Allen M. Omoto, School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University

Richard V. Wagner, Psychologists for Social Responsibility

New Signers

 

# First NameLast NameAffiliation? [For identification only.]StateComment:
601 Dr. Francisco JavierIribarrenUCLACAPresident Brehm (aka. Mengele): You are a disgrace. You do not represent me or anybody of conscience. Resign, pass APA's reigns to someone of conscience, and await your prosecution. You can keep your apologies to yourself, if you had any.
602 AbbyMaimonGraduate Student, Wright InstituteCA
603 SheridanThornGerogia State UniversityGA
604 allaneisenbergadelphi universityNY
605 MalcolmMillerAPA, CPA, LACPACAI support those against psychologists being on interrogation teams or training interrogation teams involving torture.
606 JuneMayesPsychologist, santa Monica CACAI urge the APA to take a strong stand against psychologists' participation in the torture of detainees.
607 MeryleGellmanAAMftCA
608 BarbaraBiggsLASCAP,LACPA,CSPA, APACA
609 ArantxaLopezPrivate Practice -- Member of Los Angeles County Psychological AssociationCA
610 CarolHirshfieldself-employedCA
611 ChetWilsonInstitute for Contemporary PsychoanalysisCAThank you for this action.
612 MiriamHamidehCPA< LACPACAI am choked with the silence of the organization to an issue that is against the APA ethics code and Human Rights.
613 SueElkindAPACA
614 AnneCoscarelliUCLACA
615 KarinYochprivate practitioner, Durham, NC
616 JoanneTortorici LunaAssociate Professor, California State University Long Beach, Department of Educational Psychology, Administration, and CounselingCA
617 EricaRapportMain St. Clinical Associates, PANCIt is disgraceful that psychologists should be contributing to the torture occurring at Guantanamo. What a black eye for the profession.
618 CurrenWarfPhysicians for Social ResponsibilityCA
619 HendeyHostetter, PhDprivate practice
620 DavidKeenannoneMN
621 ShannonVan WeyMain Street Clinical AssociatesNC
622 donnawolfeprivate practiceCA
623 AliseSochaczewskiTherapists for Social Responsibility, Program for Torture Victims, Los AngelesCA
624 AliseSochaczewskiTherapists for Social Responsibility, Program for Torture Victims, Los AngelesCA
625 RobertRiethmillerPrivate PracticeMAI am very concerned about this issue and am feeling torn about remaining a member of APA. Psychologists need representation now as a profession, but I cannot fathom why the APA cannot take a stand against our country's incarceration of people without charging them or affording them basic human (not just American) rights.
626 KathrynStewartnoneMDThe issue of psychologists being involved in torturous interrogations at all is very disturbing and needs to end.
627 AnonymousAnonymousmemberMA
628 andreableichmarPrivate practiceMA
629 DavidDeWinestudent affiliateNH
630 SusanThauInstitute of Contemporary PsychoanalysisCA
631 FranciscoRoccononeCA
632 cathyfletcherdemocratNC
633 MargaretSheehanPrivate practiceCA
634 PenelopeStarr-Karlin, LMFTCAMFT: Marriage & Family TherapistCA
635 LarryStarr-Karlin, LMFTCAMFT: Marriage & Family TherapistCA
636 AmyGervasioUniv of wisconsin--Stevens PointWI
637 NicholasDeMaraKaiser SROCA
638 TheresitaSolomonPsychologistCA
639 jeffreykahnprivate practiceCA
640 ThomasParisCAMFTCA
641 StephanieGoldenthalAdelphi Post-DocNY
642 MichaelBaugnonKaiserCA
643 CodyNaylorUC BerkeleyCA
644 BlesiGailLos Angeles, CACA
645 joanlevyCPACA
646 Joanie VConnorsWestern NM Univ.NMPlease stop this abomination that is destroying the ethical standing of our entire profession!!!
647 MiltonSchwebelRutgers UniversityAZAPA has brought shame to psychology & must start at once the process of reformation DISPLAY MY NAME
648 AmandaSmithAPACA
649 michaelkuttnermemberNY
650 JenniferVeitchNRC Institute for Research in ConstructionPsychology and psychologists have legitimate roles to play in the military and in civilian security agencies. It seems to me that in their zeal to promote the profession in those capacities, various APA officers (paid and volunteer) have lost sight of the limits to those roles, and of the fundamental ethical and moral principles for which I thought we stood.

 



* Affiliations listed for identification purposes only.

Contact:

Stephen Soldz
ssoldz@bgsp.edu

Steven Reisner
SReisner@psychoanalysis.net

Brad Olson
b-olson@northwestern.edu

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