September 7, 2007

A Policy on Torture Roils Psychologists' Annual Meeting

By DAVID GLENN

Critics say a new resolution allows mistreatment of prisoners

For nearly three years, the American Psychological Association has been consumed by internal debates about psychologists' roles in the interrogation of suspected terrorists held at detention centers in Iraq; at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; and at so-called black sites operated by the Central Intelligence Agency in Europe and elsewhere.

Critics of the association — roughly a hundred of whom have publicly

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