{"id":403384,"date":"2019-04-19T20:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T19:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-the-american-psychological-association-addicted-to-militarism-and-war\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T19:04:54","slug":"is-the-american-psychological-association-addicted-to-militarism-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-the-american-psychological-association-addicted-to-militarism-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the American Psychological Association Addicted to Militarism and War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_109972\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109972\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109972\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/0BB613C8-2D3D-4FE6-80D5-536EAEC3A406.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/0BB613C8-2D3D-4FE6-80D5-536EAEC3A406.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/0BB613C8-2D3D-4FE6-80D5-536EAEC3A406-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/0BB613C8-2D3D-4FE6-80D5-536EAEC3A406-768x476.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-109972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When hijacked planes hit their targets on the morning of September 11, 2001, the American Psychological Association (APA) sprang into action. Within hours, through its disaster response network the APA mobilized expert practitioners and worked with the American Red Cross to provide psychological support to families of the victims and to rescue workers. The APA\u2019s public affairs office moved quickly as well to assist the public\u2014and especially families, children, and schools\u2014by developing and disseminating\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/nov01\/aparesponds.aspx\">materials<\/a>\u00a0that provided psychological guidance about coping with fear and trauma.<\/p>\n<p>But with comparable urgency, the APA also ensured that the Bush Administration would view the association as a valued partner in the military and intelligence operations central to the new \u201cwar on terror.\u201d\u00a0Within days, the APA\u2019s science directorate called upon research psychologists to identify how psychological science might contribute to counter-terrorism initiatives. Shortly thereafter, a newly established APA\u00a0subcommittee on psychology\u2019s response to terrorism\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/nov01\/militarypsych.aspx\">directed<\/a>\u00a0its attention to \u201coffering psychologists\u2019 expertise to decision-makers in the military, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of State and related agencies\u201d and to \u201cinventorying members\u2019 expertise and asking government psychologists how agencies could put that expertise to use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These two responses are clearly very different from each other. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/04\/19\/is-the-american-psychological-association-addicted-to-militarism-and-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair When hijacked planes hit their targets on the morning of September 11, 2001, the American Psychological Association (APA) sprang into action. Within hours, through its disaster response network the APA mobilized expert practitioners and worked with the American Red Cross to provide psychological support to families of the victims and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}