Underground Hypnosis

In an important development in the American Psychological Association saga, Jeffrey Kaye has reported that psychologist Michael Gelles, a member of the association’s 2005 PENS [Psychological Ethics and National Security] task force, was himself accused of ethics violations during the interrogation of Navy Petty Officer Daniel King. This occurred well before Gelles’ appointment to the PENS Task Force. Kaye bases his account of Gelles’ involvement largely on the statements to the Senate Intellig

By Jeffrey Kaye A couple of recent articles have highlighted the unseemly fact that some past presidents of the American Psychological Association (APA), the foremost professional organization for psychologists in the United States, if not the world, had links to the use of torture, or at least to military research into coercive interrogations. An article by Jane Mayer in the recent New Yorker on CIA Director Leon Panetta noted in passing the participation of a former APA president Joseph Ma

When you start a weight loss program, you want the rapid weight loss. Since no organization has the pleasure to count calories, binging, want, feel deprived, measuring portions, eat food they dislike being subjected to torture or a famine, which in hunger and feel unhappy, it is wise that you focus on mental health and emotional aspects of successful weight loss. The problem with the popularity of weight loss program is that they only work on what happens below the neck. Hypnosis focuses on wha

Confronting the CIA’s Mind Maze: America’s Political Paralysis Over TortureWhen the Abu Ghraib photos were released in 2004, it seemed that most Americans were shocked by such novel and horrific images, but at least one was not. I’m talking about Alfred McCoy, who had been following the Central Intelligence Agency since the early 1970s, when it unsuccessfully tried to stop the publication of his book, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. As soon as McCoy saw the now