Click Here to Read: Think Again by Stanley Fish in the New York Times on August 10. 2008 which is a response to Charles Van Doren’s account in the July 28 issue of The New Yorker of his participation in the TV Game Show cheating scandal.
Click Here To Read: Chronicle of Higher Ed: Psychology and Torture by David Glenn from Psyche, Science, and Society, Blog of Stephen Soldz on August 11th, 2008.
Racism and anti-Semitism are highly complex human phenomena, having multiple causes including psychological ones. The latter are of paramount importance for understanding anti-Semitism. Over the past few decades, the focus of the psychoanalytic study of anti-Semitism has gradually shifted from the individual to the group. The earlier emphasis on unconscious individual defensive processes has been augmented by a new emphasis on the large group’s psychological processes - for example, its conscious and unconscious needs for identity, boundaries, allies - and enemies. Although, like social-science and human-science theories in general, psychoanalytic theories cannot be tested with the same rigor as natural-science theories, they can help illuminate such crucial human issues as war and peace, politics, racism, anti-Semitism, and genocide.
Click Here to Read: Collective Psychological Processes in Anti-Semitism by Avner Falk. From Jewish Political Studies Review 18:1-2, Spring 2006 .
Click Here to Read: Ending the psychological mind games on detainees By Stephen Soldz in the Boston Globe on August 10, 2008.
Click Here To Read: Torture and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association by Stephen Soldz, Brad Olson, Steven Reisner, Jean Maria Arrigo, and Bryant Welch, previously posted on this website.