http://mediaroots.org/hundreds-of-apa-psychologists-now-question-report-on-interrogation/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://mediaroots.org/hundreds-of-apa-psychologists-now-question-report-on-interrogation/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:35:41 +0000 http://localhost/mediaroots/hundreds-of-apa-psychologists-now-question-report-on-interrogation/#comment-121 It seems that it is not so easy for the president of the APA to meet the srdndatas of conservative dissenters within the ranks. Certainly one common liberal view is that whether or US troops in Iraq are brave or noble, their mission there is ultimately futile. Levant’s comments don’t seem to contradict that view, but that’s not good enough. It’s also not good enough that Levant deflects attention away from gun control in the case of Columbine in favor of psychological counseling — which I thought was also one of Helen Smith’s messages in the movie Six. On the contrary, Levant is still suspect because he still dwells on psychopathology in men, which is bad because it still leave feminists with a leg to stand on.I’ll admit that some of Levant’s message strikes me as psychobabble. But then, many psychologists make that impression on me, whether they are liberal or conservative. I think that it’s asking too much if you want people like Levant not just to nod to conservatism, but to confront and contradict liberalism at every turn. I don’t think that you can expect an APA president who sounds like Michelle Malkin.For that matter, when a pyschologist studies the psychology of any group – men or women or whoever – isn’t it natural to focus on psychopathology? I’m male (last I checked) and I don’t see anything wrong with it at all, but I would only expect to see a psychiatrist if I had a mental illness. The health of healthy people has its place in science, but it’s a little limited as an area of study.

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