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:
651 MarcoGemignaniDuquesne UniversityPA
652 PamelaNathBluffton UniversityOH
653 GregColvinUNCOI was trained as a psychologist, and work now as a computer scientist. I am ashamed to see psychology complicit in torture.
654 sigmundjoyexpelleeMTtut tut
655 GinaGolden TangalakisPsychology Dept., California State University, Long Beach; Private Practice, Redondo BeachCA
656 SkyeHabermanBank Street CollegeSkye HabermanSNY
657 LauraHaynesUniversity of California, RiversideCA
658 AnnBakerAPA memberNC
659 BrendaLeFrancoisLaurentian University
660 EllenLevineSan Francisco State UniversityCA
661 PatriciaSchillerEufaula, Al
662 Vincent M.Ruelitigation consultantFL
663 DaleSchellengerRetiredCO
664 dzevdethadziselimovicretired
665 CelesteMcColloughUniversity of DaytonOR
666 MichaelChildsClinical PsychologyMAI will give the APA until the end of the year to take a position on this issue. If the position is contrary to the position of this letter to President Brehm, I will in all liklihood resign my membership.
667 DanielNorrisprivate practicePA
668 Jean BerkoGleasonBostonUniversityMA
669 RichardElyBoston UniversityMA
670 JulieLindholmretiredAZ
671 KristinaPauroorganizational psichologyst
672 AlisonEasterUniversity of Edinburgh
673 NataliaDimoun
674 MariosKittenisUniversity of Edinburgh
675 AnonymousAnonymousUniversity of Edinburgh, UK
676 CatherineDickieUniversity of Edinburgh
677 HeleneKreysaUniversity of Edinburgh
678 DavidSeemanBoston UniversityMA
679 BobParker PhDAPAWA
680 EmilySachsFordham UniversityNY
681 JAMIEMEADOWSPrivate PracticeMO
682 JenniferRothUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIL
683 AnonymousAnonymousUniversity of Edinburgh
684 JaneKennerPsychoanalytic Institute of Northern CaliforniaCAThere is no justification for the APA not to condemn any involvment with Guantanamo
685 JeanneSchillaciprivate practiceTXI have been deeply disturbed by this country's use of torture. Now to learn that members of my profession have played a major role in the design and implementation of systematic torture is shocking to me. APA must take a strong ethical stand on this issue, rather than sweeping it under the rug.
686 CarterMehlAlameda County (retired)CAI've been a member of APA for 25 yrs and no longer proud of it.
687 PeterHegartyUniversity of Surrey
688 AdrianCoyleDepartment of Psychology, University of Surrey, UK
689 HenrietteHoghUniversity of Surrey
690 DeeMcDonaldBritish Psychological Society
691 SimonUngarUniversity of Surrey
692 M.D.AbramsBailliol CollegeThis continues the contemptible tradition of American psychological professionals' approval of morally despicable conditions (e.g. Russian punitive psychiatric treatment. Bravo: keep up the good work. Assholes.
693 Gerda MSpellerUniversity of SurreyI feel ashamed of the APA's actions to date. Please act now to remedy this appalling situation.
694 AbigailMarksSan FranciscoCA
695 DiedrickSnoekSmith College emeritusMAI resigned from APA upon my retirement. However, the revelations concerning psychologists' involvement in torture are absolutely abhorent. PLEASE ACT!
696 ArleneVetereUniversity of Surrey
697 IvanKovacsCalifornia State Univ. Eastbay (prof emeritus)CA(retired)
698 DavidByrom, Ph.D.Co-Director, Family Therapy Institute of SuffolkNY
699 Richard C.Mehlconcerned citizenMIWithout an absolute ethical stand against collusion in torture, American psychologists will share the infamy of the Nazi doctors.
700 CharlesGlattformer APA MemberMI

 



* 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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