Coalition Statements

The Coalition for an Ethical Psychology has produced a range of timely statements and commentaries on the critical issues surrounding ethics and health professionals’ participation in interrogations and detainee abuse. Links to many of them can be found below.

2013 — Present

Preserve Do-No-Harm for Military Psychologists: Coalition Responds to Department of Defense Letter to the APA

Coalition Responds to APA Authorized Independent Investigation Regarding Risen Allegations

Coalition Questions for APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen’s Book Pay Any Price

Coalition Issues Statement “Complicity: Psychology and War on Terror Abuses”

Coalition Responds to APA Decision to Reject Disciplinary Action Against Guantanamo Psychologist

Coalition Endorses Recommendations of New Report on Health Professional Involvement in Torture, Calls for APA Action

Coalition Poses Key Questions for Supporters of New APA Policy Proposal on Psychologists’ Work in National Security Settings

Coalition Responds to New APA Policy Proposal on Psychologists’ Work in National Security Settings

Coalition Responds to Constitution Project Report on Detainee Treatment

Coalition Letter to APA Council Opposing “Member-Initiated Task Force”

2009 — 2012

Coalition Response to Letter from APA Division 42 Board

Adversarial Operational Psychology Is Unethical for Psychologists

Coalition Resolution to Annul the APA PENS Report

Coalition Declines Invitation to Consult to APA “Task Force”

Coalition Rejects New APA “Task Force”

Coalition Call for Annulment of APA PENS Report

Coalition Background Statement on Annulment of APA PENS Report

Reclaiming Our Profession: Psychology Ten Years After 9/11

Press Release: Coalition Charges APA with Complicity in Torture Interrogations

Open Letter to APA President Goodheart Charges APA with Complicity in Torture Interrogations

Letter to APA President Carol Goodheart Calls for Action Regarding James and Leso

Press Release: United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Calls on APA to Withdraw Psychologists from Guantánamo Detention Camp

Open Letter in Response to the American Psychological Association Board

Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Calls for Independent Investigation of Ties between the American Psychological Association and Defense-Intelligence Establishment

2006 — 2008

Response to APA Proposed Amendment to Ridley-Thomas Resolution in California

Coalition Statement on APA Members’ Historic Referendum Banning Psychologist Participation in U.S. Detention Facilities

Appeal to Colleagues in Turkey from American Psychologists: Stand With Us Against Psychologist Involvement in Torture and Detainee Abuse

Press Release on Case of Mohammed Jawad: Military Psychologist Invokes Right to Remain Silent at Guantánamo Hearing, Refusing to Testify About Abusive Treatment of Detainee

Torture, and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association

Letter to Senate Intelligence Committee: Psychologists Out of Abusive Interrogations

Analysis of the American Psychological Association’s Frequently Asked Questions Regarding APA’s Policies and Positions on the Use of Torture or Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment During Interrogations

Open Letter to APA President Sharon Brehm: On Psychologists and Torture

Q & A on Torture