American Psychological Association’s Collusion with CIA Torture Programs
History Repeats Itself with the APA’s Collusion in Human Rights Abuses By Kelly Patricia O’Meara May 18, 2015 The latest investigation into the American Psychological…
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PSYCHOLOGISTS OF TORTURE:
The Dangerous Alliance Between Psychology, Psychiatry & Government
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara December 17, 2014 That members of the mental health community are named as the master minds of torture in the recently…
PSYCHOLOGISTS OF TORTURE:The Dangerous Alliance Between Psychology, Psychiatry & Government
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara December 17, 2014 That members of the mental health community are named as the master minds of torture in the recently…
UN Calls Electroshock Treatment of Kids at Massachusetts School “Torture”
The Boston-area’s Judge Rotenberg Center educates and treats enrollees ages 3 to adult, all of whom are struggling with severe emotional, behavior, and psychiatric problems, including autism-like disorders. And for about half of the 250 students here, undesirable behavior means getting hooked up to a special machine and administered an electric shock.
US school for disabled forces students to wear packs that deliver massive electric shocks
Findings in the MDRI report include the center’s practice of subjecting children to electric shocks on the legs, arms, soles of feet and torso — in many cases for years — as well as some for more than a decade. Electronic shocks are administered by remote-controlled packs attached to a child’s back called a Graduated Electronic Decelerators (GEI).