Training vs. Torture: Psychology Students Don’t Receive Crucial Ethics, Human Rights Education

August 8, 2014

(Medical Xpress) – U.S. graduate students in psychology receive very little instruction in military medical ethics and are largely unaware of their duties under the Geneva Conventions, despite the longstanding ties between the American Psychological Association and the military, and despite the fact that psychologists were the architects of the “enhanced interrogation” programs used at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and elsewhere, which many leading ethicists and legal scholars have described as torture.