October 12, 2016

By J. Wesley Boyd

To the Editor:

It is a sad moment in American history for the United States to have violated international codes of ethical conduct and inflicted such horrific harm on so many. The fact that some psychologists — aided by collusion between the leadership in the American Psychological Association and the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency — played a central role in developing and maintaining the torture apparatus is appalling.

Read the full letter at The New York Times

J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD is on faculty at the Center for Bioethics and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is a staff psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), and is the co-founder and co-director of the Human Rights and Asylum Clinic at CHA.