Articles by Stephen Soldz

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Attacks on Hoffman Report from Military Psychologists Obfuscate Detainee Abuse
Stephen Soldz and Steven Reisner - CounterPunch, 11 Jan 2016

In the wake of the July 2015 Hoffman Report, which found that the American Psychological Association colluded with the Department of Defense to ensure that no APA policy would constrain psychologists’ participation in DOD’s “enhanced interrogation” program, the APA passed an historic ban on the involvement of psychologists in national security interrogations and at detention sites that operate outside or in violation of international law, including Guantánamo Bay Detention Center.

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All the President’s Psychologists [Full Report]
Stephen Soldz Ph.D., Nathaniel Raymond and Steven Reisner Ph.D., 4 May 2015

The American Psychological Association’s complicity in the CIA torture program, by allowing psychologists to administer and calibrate permitted harm, undermines the fundamental ethical standards of the profession. If not carefully understood and rejected by the profession, this may portend a fundamental shift in the profession’s relationship with the people it serves.

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Complicity: Psychology and War on Terror Abuses
Roy Eidelson, Trudy Bond, Stephen Soldz, Steven Reisner, Jean Maria Arrigo and Brad Olson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2014

Given that psychologists have been central figures in the abuse and torture of our country’s “war on terror” detainees, and that the American Psychological Association has worked to guarantee psychologists’ positioning in detention and interrogation roles, examining the APA’s involvement is an appropriate starting point for this crucial work.

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Hawaiian Mind Games: American Psychological Association Fiddles While Psychology Burns
Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz, Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2013

More consequential will be the APA leadership’s latest victory in its long-running campaign: the stubborn obstruction of all efforts to meaningfully address the central role psychologists played in U.S. government torture and abuse of national security detainees.

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Guantánamo and the American Psychological Association: Where Accountability Goes to Die
Roy Eidelson, Trudy Bond & Stephen Soldz – CounterPunch, 15 Apr 2013

Many of these individuals have suffered not only from indefinite detention, they have also been the victims of horrific physical and psychological abuse often rising to the level of torture, at the hands of individuals who have never been held accountable. As psychologists distressed by the involvement of our own profession in detainee abuse, we are especially troubled by the failure of the American Psychological Association (APA) to sanction one of its members, Dr. John Leso, a psychologist and Army officer who served at Guantánamo from June 2002 to January 2003. Six long years ago one of us (Trudy Bond) filed a complaint against Dr. Leso with the APA’s Ethics Committee.

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The US Army’s Flawed Resilience-Training Study: A Call for Retraction
Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jun 2012

In a report released today [4 Jun 2012] by the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, two psychologists call upon the US Army to retract or publicly correct a recent research report that claims the Army’s $140 million Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) resilience program “works.” The psychologists Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz argue that the study design is flawed and that the results do not justify the researchers’ favorable conclusions.

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Guantanamo Doctors Fail to Document Torture: Independent Scrutiny Needed
Stephen Soldz - ZNet, 9 May 2011

“The findings of this study demonstrate that allegations by these nine detainees of torture were corroborated by forensic evaluations by non-governmental medical experts and that DoD medical and mental health providers at GTMO failed to document physical and/or psychological evidence of intentional harm.

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The Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness”
Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk & Stephen Soldz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2011

Why is the world’s largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive, and untested military program? The APA’s enthusiasm for mandatory “resilience training” for all U.S. soldiers is troubling on many counts.

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Omar Suleiman & “Foreign Elements”: A Chronology
Stephen Soldz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2011

This is the monster the US considers an “acceptable” alternative leader in Egypt.

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