Stories by Stephen Soldz

Stephen Soldz is a psychoanalyst, psychologist, public health researcher, and faculty member at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He maintains the Psychoanalysts for Peace and Justice web page and the Psyche, Science, and Society blog. He is a founder of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, one of the organizations leading the struggle to change American Psychological Association policy on participation in abusive interrogations. subscribe to Stephen Soldz's feed

Shocking New Report: The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush

Posted on: Jun 7, 2010, Source: AlterNet

A new report details how the effects of torture on detainees were closely studied in order to perfect 'enhanced interrogation techniques.'

Psychologists to Obama: Don't Name Torture Apologist John Brenner CIA Director

Posted on: Nov 24, 2008, Source: Psyche, Science, and Society

An open letter from 200 psychologists and allies who are urging Obama not to select John Brennan to be Director of the CIA.

End Psychologists' Role in State Torture

Posted on: Aug 12, 2008, Source: Boston Globe

Psychologists have become accomplices to torture. They owe it to their profession to oppose abuses, not participate in them.

Forced Drugging of Guantánamo Prisoners: A Crisis for Health Professionals

Posted on: Apr 23, 2008, Source: AlterNet

With growing evidence of involuntary drugging of prisoners at Guantánamo, health professionals must take an unequivocal stance on torture.

Whistleblower Website Under Attack

Posted on: Feb 18, 2008, Source: Psyche, Science, and Society

A U.S. Court has ordered Wikileaks.org to be shut down.