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

Signatures | Total: 731

 

# First NameLast NameAffiliation? [For identification only.]StateComment:
151 AdrienneHarrisNYUNY
152 StevenBotticelliCity University, NYCNY
153 SallyHageTeachers College, Columbia UniversityNY
154 antoniacedroneAPA, NYSPANY
155 JosephBuckhaltAuburn UniversityAL
156 judithschmidtprivate practiceNY
157 KaetheWeingartenHarvard Medical SchoolMA
158 JeffreyShapiroAPAPA
159 J PCheuvrontInstitute for the Psychoanalytic Study of SubjectivityNY
160 SarahKassSaybrook Graduate School and Research CenterNY
161 ThomasGreensponGreenspon Associates, P.A.MN
162 AndreaCousinsWestern Massachusetts & Albany Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (Div 39)MA
163 William F.Flack Jr.Bucknell UniversityPA
164 PaulineGinsbergProfessor Emerita, Utica CollegeNY
165 Margaret W.MatlinSUNY GeneseoNY
166 AnonymousAnonymousAssociate Director, Forensic Psychiatry Kings County Hospital; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Adelphi UniversityNY
167 AnonymousAnonymousOur Lady of the Lake UniversityTX
168 RobertBardenAPAMA
169 anneerreichNYU Psychoanalytic InstituteNY
170 MargaretCramerFielding Graduate UniversityMA
171 JulianTaberRetiredWA
172 KarenMarodaAsst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of WisconsinWI
173 SethWarrenInstitute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of NJNJ
174 AudreyRosaOACCPP
175 DanielRepinskiAPANY
176 WilliamEarnest, Ph.DAPA - Division 39FL
177 JamesHerbertDrexel UniversityPA
178 DavidDeMatteoDrexel UniversityPA
179 PaulWatskyprivate practiceThe only reason I have postponed resigning from APA because of its encouragement of torture is that psychologists within the organization have been working for change.
180 DavidHartmanPrivate PracticeILI believe that APA membership is incompatible with training and supervising torture.
181 JamesWoodUniversity of Texas at El PasoTX
182 PeterKuriloffUniversity of PennsylvaniaPAAbove all, psychologists should not only 'do no harm' but promote human welfare. All we know about torture is that it promotes evil. Psychologists should fight it not promote it. Ironically, all evidence suggests that torture promotes harm while being the least effective way to gather useful information from hostile people. APA should not only get out of this business but develop standards to make it clear that psychologists involved are behaving unethically. Peter Kuriloff Professor Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania
183 EdwardBiggsMental Health ClinicCA
184 MargaretHankeAPAIN
185 DavidDevonisGraceland UniversityIA
186 ArnoldBernsteinProf Emeritus Queens CollegeNY
187 ScottPernaAPACA
188 RobertKugelmannUniversity of DallasTX
189 LawrenceWetzlerFaculty, Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in PsychoanalysisNY
190 JonLieberman, Ph.DPrivate PracticeNY
191 ScottMillisWayne State UniversityMI
192 StephanieAlpertNYU Psychoanalytic InstituteNY
193 VirginiaSternPrivate PracticeNYI have been stunned by the APA's reluctance - no denial - to face the cruelty and violence perpetrated by psychologists throughout the war. Criminal behaviour cannot ever be condoned - even when done by licensed professionals. We have sworn and dedicated our lives to healing. Those who participate in torture should certainly lose their licenses.
194 irvingsarnoffProf. Emeritus of Psychology, NYUMA
195 DouglasCandlandBucknell UniversityPA
196 HowardCovitzAPA/Div 39 and Sect 1PANot only is the Detainee policy unacceptable but the conflict over maintaining adequate records, maintaining confidentiality and the possible breaches through the Patriot Act makes it essential for APA to act with a unified voice.
197 GanieDeHartSUNY GeneseoNY
198 Mary CatherineWelshUniversity of South AlabamaAL
199 MarciaCaronEmory UniversityGA
200 AnonymousAnonymousUniversity of South AlabamaALThis and many other instances of APA's impotence (e.g., handling of the Rind et al. article) makes me proud to say that I am NOT a member.

 

Signatures | Total: 731


* 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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