We resign from the APA

Signatures 73 total

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   Name: Stephen Soldz on Nov 8, 2009

   Please tell us why you are resigning: It is long past time that potential complicity of APA leadership in detainee abuse be investigated. Only a thorough, independent, investigation can clarify if, or how, this complicity occurred. Until that occurs, the APA lacks legitimacy as a representative of the best of psychology.

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   Name: Ruth Fallenbaum on Nov 8, 2009

   Please tell us why you are resigning: My reasons are well summarized by the above letter. After more than 20 years of membership, I cannot continue my affiliation with APA.

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   Name: Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. on Nov 8, 2009

   Please tell us why you are resigning:

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   Name: Martha Davis on Nov 8, 2009

   Please tell us why you are resigning: For all of the petition reasons and then some. But we will not stop the pressure we have put on the APA these past years. We will continue the fight from outside.

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   Name: Avgi Saketopoulou on Nov 9, 2009

   Please tell us why you are resigning:

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   Name: Elizabeth Hegeman on Nov 9, 2009

   Please tell us why you are resigning: The APA governance has not adequately responded to the ethical principles to which our profession should hold. I do not want to be represented by an organization that can respond to the clear referendum with such delaying strategies and failure to enforce.

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   Name: Trudy Bond on Nov 9, 2009

   Please tell us why you are resigning:

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   Name: Stephanie Noland, Ph.D. on Nov 9, 2009

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   Name: Robert Keisner on Nov 9, 2009

   Please tell us why you are resigning: I have already resigned for the reasons spelled out in this petition. Our department of psychology at Long Island University/CW Post Campus-with an APA accredited clinical psychology program-sent a letter in 2008 to APA expressing support for the referendum

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    Name: Katie Gentile on Nov 9, 2009

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    Name: Kathleen Bacon-Greenberg on Nov 9, 2009

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    Name: Ellen G. Levine, Ph.D., M.P.H. on Nov 9, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I believe that APA is no longer a good and ethical representative of the profession of psychology.

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    Name: Michael OLoughlin on Nov 9, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I support all of the points expressed in the petition. I have joined Psycholgoists for Social Responsibility, having concluded that I cannot ethcially support APA. Their inaction and dissembling is offensive and appalling.

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    Name: Michael OLoughlin on Nov 9, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I support all of the points expressed in the petition. I have joined Psycholgoists for Social Responsibility, having concluded that I cannot ethcially support APA. Their inaction and dissembling is offensive and appalling.

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    Name: Cheryl Carmin, Ph.D. on Nov 9, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: For the above noted ethical reasons related to torture, for the use of membership monies to support prescription privileges for psychologists, and the attempt to circumvent the peer review process.

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    Name: Jay B. Pozner, Ph.D. on Nov 10, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning:

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    Name: Jmaes C. Coyne on Nov 10, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: The leadership of APA has lost all credibility in the way it has responded to the membership on this issue. They should go or we should go.

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    Name: Ronna Friend on Nov 10, 2009

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    Name: Art Eccleston on Nov 10, 2009

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    Name: Mark S. Kane Ph.D. on Nov 10, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I resigned 3 years ago. The historical documents say it better than I can at this time and space.

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    Name: Brad Olson on Nov 10, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I stopped paying my dues to the APA several years ago. I felt it was personally inappropriate to be associated with an organization that promoted psychologist involvement in the most unethical activities, including direct coercive interrogation at places like Guantanamo. And then on such an overwhelming number of occasions over a series of years the APA deviously stalled and derailed efforts to establish clear policies, refused to change a most absurd section of its ethics code, and took many other historically inappropriate steps. This resignation is a relief to me, particularly since Psychologists for Social Responsibility and other groups provide such a superior alternative with an emphasis on social justice and the creation of a better world through psychology--rather than the opposite.

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    Name: John M. Stewart, Ph.D. on Nov 10, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: Psychologists of ethics and integrity have no representation in the American Psychological Association and thus we cannot continue as members.

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    Name: Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla on Nov 10, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: It said (did not do) too little, too late.

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    Name: Sharon Gadberry on Nov 10, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I resigned several years ago, when the APA refused to investigate psychologists involved in creating, managing, and executing torture programs in Guantanamo. Since then things have gotten worse.

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    Name: Beth Stearns on Nov 11, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: Stated eloquently above.

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    Name: Irene Smith Landsman on Nov 11, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I formally resigned in protest in 2007. I wrote to the APA at that time carefully explaining my decision; the patronizing response convinced me I had the done the right thing.

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    Name: Taylor Rockwell, PhD on Nov 11, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I resigned in 2007, for the reasons stated above.

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    Name: Jeffrey S. Kaye on Nov 12, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I resigned in January 2008. If I had known how complicit APA was in a decades-long history of support to the CIA and other military-intelligence agencies, and how crucial some APA leaders were in the original research into psychological torture, I would certainly never have joined.

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    Name: Skye Haberman on Nov 12, 2009

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    Name: Lorraine M Fish on Nov 12, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: Very reluctantly, I have come to the conclusion that psychologists of ethics and integrity are no longer represented by the American Psychological Association. My reasons are detailed in the petition.

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    Name: Susan B. Chipman, Ph.D on Nov 12, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: After more than 20 years, I am resigning for the reasons I wrote in a letter to Dr. Anderson 2 years ago, and for the reasons stated so well in the above letter.

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    Name: Melanie Suchet on Nov 12, 2009

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    Name: Kristi Schermerhorn on Nov 13, 2009

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    Name: Ronnie Lesser on Nov 15, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: My reasons for resigning are well stated by the petition.

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    Name: Stephen Benson, Ph.D. on Nov 16, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: The past two years of increasing self-education about the APA’s handling of its ethical responsibilities in its relationship with the nation’s military complex has undermined my allegiance to the organization. The APA has sacrificed its scientific as well as social and ethical responsibilities in order to collude with power and win support and funding for its members and programs. It is not a group that I am willing to be a part of.

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    Name: Stephen P Seligman on Nov 19, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: While the APA may represent narrow professional interests, it has not kept faith with the deeper ethical values that have motivated so many of us to join this humanist, helping profession in the first place.

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    Name: Laura L. Doty, Ph.D. on Nov 19, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: After withholding my dues for two years and trying to work within the system to effect change, I am now convinced that the APA leadership is and has been complicit in immoral and unethical acts completely antithetical to the values of the profession and that the leadership has no intention of making substantive changes in its focus. The APA does not represent me nor uphold the values I believe make this profession worthwhile. I have no desire to be counted among its members.

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    Name: Deborah Freed on Nov 20, 2009

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    Name: Ghislaine Boulanger on Nov 22, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: For several years we have attempted to get the APA to recognize that its collaboration with the US administrations detention and interrogation of enemy combatants is immoral -- even if it is not unethical according to the APAs carefully doctored ethical code. At this point it is clear that there is little hope of any real change in the APAs moral stance until there is a change in the APAs leadership. Under these circumstances, I have no choice but to resign.

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    Name: Rachel Lee, PhD on Nov 24, 2009

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    Name: Terry Proeger on Nov 25, 2009

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    Name: Lynne Kwalwasser on Nov 29, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I am resigning because of the failure of the APA to deal with the issues of torture in the Iraqi War.

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    Name: William C. Glover, Ph.D. on Nov 29, 2009

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    Name: Donnel B. Stern on Nov 29, 2009

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    Name: Mark Mellinger on Nov 30, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: The kerfuffle over a clear anti-torture position has shown me that APA never really represented me as an organization.

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    Name: Cathleen Adams on Nov 30, 2009

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    Name: John L. Reeves, II on Dec 4, 2009

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    Name: Sergio Rothstein Ph.D. on Dec 13, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: Because of the APA's continued failure to live up to its ideals, most particularly in the recent participation of Psychologists in the administration of torture.d

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    Name: Hermine Muskat, Ed.D. on Dec 16, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: Because the APA no longer represents my values as a person or as a professional.

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    Name: Elizabeth Goren, PhD on Dec 18, 2009

    Please tell us why you are resigning: I must resign to uphold my ethical obligations as a psychologist which I do not feel the APA is sustaining in its failure to follow through on the referendum and the need for a code of conduct which unequivocally upholds a standard which does not permit legal loopholes for being involved in practices which violate basic human rights, international law and the United States Constitution

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