Citation

Rossi V, Mingo E, Chung DM, Olson B. Qual. Psychol. 2022; 9(3): 336-343.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/qup0000233

PMID

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Abstract

Dear Fellow Psychologists: We, as the discipline of psychology, are faced with extreme ethical challenges as we operate collectively in the name of healing and under the mantra of "do no harm." It is up to us collectively to determine what will and will not be ethically permitted in the name of our shared profession. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood in front of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7months before he was brutally murdered, just as his politics turned toward greater accountability for social scientists. King said, "Social scientists should also disclose the suicide instinct that governs the administration and Congress." By "suicide instinct," King was referring to the too often ugly inclinations of our government to do harm to the nation's precious democracy. But he was equally speaking to the propensity, seen everywhere, for social science to eagerly expose the "suicide instinct" in the Black men and women, rioting in the streets for freedom. Social scientists simultaneously bypassed studying the propensities of our government and other institutions of power to intervene in harmful ways, nationally and abroad © 2022 American Psychological Association

Language: en

Keywords

Psychology; Interrogation; Trust; Torture; Human rights