Don Gaspar de Portola
From: target@batstar.net
To: psysr-disc@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:47:21 -0700
Subject: Re: [psysr-disc] Resigners
Quoting Ttt:
Does anyone know anyone (besides me) who has resigned APA for ethical reasons (or just general disgust, whatever)? Has anyone here even pondered the idea for a moment?
Gerald Mendelsohn is an emeritus personality psychologist at U.C. Berkeley; also served as Dean of Letters & Science. He was the "3rd member" of my 1st thesis committee (before I was hospitalized); later he was the advisor for my
senior project paper (as a 2nd B.A. student in psychology),Gerry said he resigned from APA "a long time ago" I think it was in the 60s because it was taken over by clinical psychology (and some allied consulting people) and the broader and more general issues of psychology were "marginalized."
I don't know about "general disgust," but there is a standing problem of an improper balance of power within the APA.
Andrew Phelps