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Psychological Torture--The CIA and the APA.
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Reviews the book, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred W. McCoy (see record 2006-01819-000). In this book the author traces the development and spread of psychological torture, which he largely attributes to machinations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). His CIA torture paradigm has two core elements: sensory disorientation (through hooding, sleep deprivation, isolation, etc.) and self-inflicted pain (through forced maintenance of stressful postures, restraint of urination, etc.). Sensory disorientation commonly leads to psychosis. Self-inflicted pain tends to demoralize the interrogate, in contrast to direct assault, which tends to elicit resistance. Cumulatively, these techniques can damage the subject more than physical torture. From the perpetrators' perspective, psychological torture has the added advantages of eluding detection and minimizing moral objections. McCoy displays compelling similarities among the CIA's early Cold War behavioral modification research, the 1963 CIA KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual, and the Army's 1983 Human Resources Manual for counterinsurgency-all unmistakably grounded in psychological research. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, McCoy speculates, there was a hiatus in U.S. operations. In response to September 11, 2001, though, the Bush Administration revived the CIA torture paradigm. Recent government memoranda on interrogation at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib exhibit the KUBARK lineage. Numerous eminent psychologists and psychiatrists contributed to the development of psychological torture, including former American Psychological Association (APA) presidents Donald Hebb (in 1960) and Charles Osgood (in 1963). Hebb's sensory deprivation experiments, for instance, were directed not toward railway accident prevention, as originally reported, but toward brainwashing. McCoy brings strong evidence for the overall irrationality and inefficacy of torture interrogation as a means of gathering intelligence. He concludes with a public appeal to "repudiat[e] a practice that, more than any other, represents the denial of democracy" (p. 208). A Question of Torture deeply informs the torture debate, which is an indisputable public good. Through publication of remote and recently declassified source material, McCoy raises the standard for public debate. Yet McCoy also polarizes the debate through reductionism and selective reading. As exposure and blame are crucial for public outrage, fairness and accuracy are crucial for public understanding and cooperation from insiders. A revised version of A Question of Torture could meet both objectives through restraint in proclaiming historical causes and asserting evil intentions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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