No role for mental health professionals in the practice of torture

Friday, January 29, 2010 - 07:07 in Psychology & Sociology

Psychologists and psychiatrists should not be expected to participate in torture as they do not have the expertise to assess individual pain or the long-term effects of interrogation, says an expert in the British Medical Journal today.

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