From Dennis Fox:
Posted by: “Dennis Fox”
Tue Aug 5, 2008 7:46 am (PDT)
An update on the three events I emailed about a couple of weeks ago -
restaurant location, revised protest schedule, discussion reminder. If
you think you might make it to the dinner, please let me know. Close
to last minute is also probably okay.
1. CRITICAL/RADICAL PSYCHOLOGY DINNER
Thursday, August 14, 7 [...]
Torture and the American Psyche Concerned citizens and members of the mental health profession discuss the role of psychologists in interrogations. May 3rd, 2008 at the First Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts. Stephen Soldz, Ph.D. psychoanalyst, social activist and professor at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and national leader in opposing psychologist participation in torture [...]
Jane Mayers new book, The Dark Side, has refocused attention on psychologists’ participation in Bush administration torture and detainee abuse. In one chapter Mayer provides previously undisclosed details about psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen’s role in the CIAs brutal, “enhanced interrogation” techniques. These techniques apparently drew heavily on the theory of “learned helplessness” developed [...]
The U.S. Economy Is Socialism for the Rich | | AlterNet
Free market capitalism in the United States is by no means “free.” Its time we recognize this and move past the destructive neoliberal agenda.
See also Michael Leon Guerrero’s From the Ashes of Neoliberalism
From Dennis Fox: Here are three events at next month’s APA convention in Boston (please pass this along to others who might be interested):
1. CRITICAL/RADICAL PSYCHOLOGY DINNER
Thursday, August 14, 7 PM - time is tentative, location to be determined later.
RSVP if you plan to attend so I can let you know the restaurant location and [...]
Every person in America is feeling the pinch of rising health care costs and sinking health care coverage. While insurance company profits have risen 1000% in the last five years, the typical American pays more for less coverage every year. Sign on to Health Care for America Now then forward to others.
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Thanks to Paul Doecki at Vanderbilt for pointing out this article. Some excerpts:
Psychologists have moved to the center of this controversy for diverse reasons. First, the Pentagon’s stated intention to rely on psychologists rather than psychiatrists fits well with the American Psychological Association’s stated belief in contributing to detainee interrogations to prevent terrorism.
In stark contrast [...]
American medical care might be the most expensive in the world, but it is getting increasingly difficult to argue that it is worth every penny. A study that was to be released on Thursday highlights the stark contrast between what the United States spends on its health system and the quality of care it delivers, [...]
Dani Rodrik, writing for Project Syndicate, finds that some prominent former staunch advocates of liberalized trade regimes are having serious doubts to the point that they are actually airing them in public. The big issue appears to be – surprise – that trade is not delivering the benefits in practice that it is alleged to produce [...]
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