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:
201 JacobJaffeIndependent psychologistNY
202 SheilaNamirInstitute of Contemporary PsychoanalysisCA
203 HarrisFriedmanUniversity of FloridaFL
204 JenniferMarkeyPostdoctoral Training Menninger Clinic
205 DavidLichtensteinApres-Coup; Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services; CUNY Graduate CenterNY
206 StanleyFisherPrivate PracticeNY
207 DanielLitowsky-DucasaPrivate Practice, Diplomate-American Academy of Experts in Traumatic StressCA
208 Louis JJacobsonPrivate practiceNY
209 AlexisJohnsonAPANYthanks for taking this on
210 MichaelLoewyDepartment of Counseling Psychology and Community Services, University of North DakotaND
211 IversonEickenPrivate PracticeCA
212 LarryWornianPrivate practiceCA
213 SondraLeftoffJohn Jay College of Criminal JusticeNY
214 AnonymousAnonymousUT AustinGive me ONE good reason why keeping this policy is good for APA and the psychologists it represents? Sorry, making money and political connections is not an okay response.
215 LindaManningVanderbilt UniversityTN
216 KevinKuehlweinUniversity of Pennsylvania
217 RaymondWlodkowskiself-employedWAThe psychologists who led the interrogation and torture of these prisoners have violated not only our professional ethics but the basic humanity as well.
218 AndreaNorthwoodCenter for Victims of TortureMN
219 MaryWaterstreetAPAIA
220 LaylaAsamaraiCenter for Victims of TortureMN
221 BeckNielsMedical SchoolMO
222 Scott J.HunterAssociate Professor, Psychiatry & Pediatrics, University of ChicagoIL
223 MosheWurgaftIndependentMA
224 JoanBazarAPA life memberCAI as a citizen and APA member refuse to condone cooperation in unethical, illegal actions by our government.
225 ElizabethVozzolaSaint Joseph CollegeCTBravo for doing this. I called the Ethics Director personally when I first read NYTimes coverage of APA's position.
226 LawrenceJacobsonWilliam Alanson White InstituteNY
227 KimberlyCochranememberMD
228 Susan B.MortonSurvivor's International Clinician; Private PracticeCAI am apalled and saddened by my professional organizaition's stance on this. Although I have not yet withheld dues, I will do so if this position by APA is not rectified.
229 ElizabethCaseTrinity Boston Counseling CenterMAI am ashamed that my professional organization endorses torture. I grew up during WW II, and cannot believe that the US military and its professional psychologists are doing what the Nazis did then. Please stop this immediately, and apologize publicly on behalf of the APA membership.
230 TimothyWellsFielding Graduate UniversityNYThe use of knowledge and wisdom for the betterment of humankind is noble! The use of knowledge and wisdom to dominate others or further nationalistic goals is clearly immoral! APA needs to stand for science as a noble pursuit and just cause. Please stand for human dignity, even in the face of anger and hatred.
231 SallyPowersUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstMA
232 BethKrackovindependentCA
233 JordanOrzoffWalden UniversityMN
234 GregoryShraderDiv. 44AZ
235 PeteMoronesprivate practiceOR
236 TeresaScannellDirector, Creekside Mental Health Rehabilitation ProgramCA
237 EricaSchoenbergNew HampshireNH
238 AnonymousAnonymousEast Valley Community Health CenterCA
239 MichaelKahnCalif Inst. ofIntegral StudiesCA
240 ChristineStifflerClinical PsychAssociatesNY
241 EliseLabbe-ColdsmithUniv of South AL
242 JenniferKrawetYeshiva UniversityNY
243 ClaireBasescuWilliam Alanson White InstituteNY
244 davidwallinAPACAOur profession should never be enlisted to participate in torture or so-called "coercive interrogation." It is utterly inconsistent with the values of the profession.
245 MariaNardoneSUNY DownstateNY
246 HelenResneck-SannesAPACA
247 davidwallinAPACAdon't enlist psychology in the service of torture
248 SusanBennettAPA, OPAOR
249 AnonymousAnonymousWilliam Alanson White InstituteNY
250 LucyMcLellanInternational Trauma Studies Program AlumniNY

 

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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