Behavioral Health, North Charleston, SC
From: target@batstar.net
To: psysr-disc@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:57:13 -0800
Subject: Re: [psysr-disc] [Comment] on APA President's recent letter
Hi
http://www.counterpunch.org/bond01132010.html
This is really an excellent commentary, .. and PsySR does well to blog it, as [they] did today.
I learned when I tried my hand at activism in South Carolina, about the "Ibo Landing" (Brunswick, GA, 1808) which represents a level in the struggle preceding Garrison's speech. The story goes that a group of slaves being transported from Nigeria seized the slave ship as it landed in Brunswick. The slavers were killed or got away. So they asked themselves, "What do we do?" They consulted with their god Chukwu and were advised, "Walk back to Africa." So they walked out onto the water ..
What I'm saying is that if we work at it, we can complexify the psychological description of this new phase of "Ethical APA," and describe how it works in a practical way.
We need a full-blown psychology for the "Age of Torture."
Andrew Phelps