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Papers by Steven Reisner

Research paper thumbnail of Psychosocial and trauma response in war-torn societies: supporting traumatized communities through arts and theatre

Research paper thumbnail of Psychosocial and trauma response in war-torn societies: supporting traumatized communities through arts and theatre

Research paper thumbnail of From resistance to resistance: A narrative of psychoanalytic activism

Research paper thumbnail of Ethical concerns about psychologists' participation in interrogation of detainees

Research paper thumbnail of Torturando en la oscuridad

El nuevo libro de Jane Mayer, "The Dark Side", vuelve a centrar su atención en la participación d... more El nuevo libro de Jane Mayer, "The Dark Side", vuelve a centrar su atención en la participación de psicólogos en las torturas y malos tratos a los detenidos por parte de la administración Bush. En uno de los capítulos, Mayer aporta detalles anteriormente desconocidos sobre el papel de los psicólogos James Mitchell y Bruce Jessen en las brutales y "mejoradas técnicas de interrogatorio". Al parecer esas técnicas se apoyan firmemente en la teoría del "indefensión aprendida" desarrollada por el antiguo Presidente de la Asociación Psicológica Americana [USA] Martin Seligman. (El trabajo de Seligman consistió en atormentar perros con choques eléctricos hasta que eran totalmente incapaces o no estaban dispuestos a salir ellos mismos de la dolorosa situación. De ahí la frase "indefensión aprendida"). Mayer informa, y Seligman lo ha confirmado, que, en 2002, Seligman impartió una clase de tres horas en la escuela de la Marina SERE, en San Diego. SERE es el programa denominado Escape, Resistencia, Evasión y Supervivencia del ejército, que intenta inocular a los pilotos, a las fuerzas especiales y a otros potenciales prisioneros de alto nivel, actitudes contra la tortura en caso de que fueran capturados por un poder que no respeta las Convenciones de Ginebra. Al parecer, por razones que no están claras, no fue la Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), que dirige ese programa, quien invitó a Seligman a hacer la presentación sino, directamente, la misma Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA).

Research paper thumbnail of Professional Standards in the Aftermath of Torture

Interrogation and Torture, 2020

In addition to direct effects on detainees, interrogators, intelligence agencies, and law, the U.... more In addition to direct effects on detainees, interrogators, intelligence agencies, and law, the U.S. torture program had additional corrupting influences on other aspects of society. This chapter explores the effects that the torture program had on civil society by exploring its effects on the profession of psychology and on the largest U.S. psychological professional organization, the American Psychological Association (APA). We briefly summarize public knowledge regarding the involvement of psychologists in the CIA and DoD "enhanced interrogation" torture programs. We then describe the public response of the APA as news of this knowledge emerged. However, the public response did not match the APA’s behind-the-scenes actions, as was revealed by a 2015 Independent Review of APA leaders' potential complicity with the torture program conducted by Chicago attorney David Hoffman. The resultant Hoffman Report found a pattern of backchannel collaboration ("collusion&quot...

Research paper thumbnail of Ethics, Human Rights, International Law, and the Discipline of Psychology

Research paper thumbnail of Letter to the Editor re: the Change in Standard 1.02

Research paper thumbnail of The level of integrative failure in borderline and schizophrenic pathology

... Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice. Grand, Stan... more ... Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice. Grand, Stanley; Feiner, Kenneth; Reisner, Steven. Wilson, Arnold (Ed); Gedo, John E. (Ed), (1993). Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice, (pp. 48-75). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Eros reclaimed: Recovering Freud's relational theory

... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Eros reclaimed: Recovering Freud's relational t... more ... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Eros reclaimed: Recovering Freud's relational theory. Relational perspectives in psychoanalysis. Reisner, Steven. Skolnick, Neil J. (Ed); Warshaw, Susan C. (Ed), (1992). Relational perspectives in psychoanalysis, (pp. 281-312). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Torture, and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association

Research paper thumbnail of Suddenly, I couldn't anymore:" On Becoming a Psychoanalyst-Activist

Research paper thumbnail of The Psychoanalytic Activist, Winter 2008

Research paper thumbnail of The call for PENS annulment

Research paper thumbnail of Psychic Trauma and the Seductions of a Painful Past

Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2003

————————————————————————————————— The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from... more ————————————————————————————————— The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from one of painful, formative experience, to one of injustice and the imperative to rectify an untoward event. Journalists, politicians, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Freud and Developmental Theory A 21st-Century Look at the Origin Myth or Psychoanalysis

Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Freud And Psychoanalysis: Into The 21st Century

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1999

Freud's psychoanalysis has been criticized as quintessentially “twentieth century,” reflecti... more Freud's psychoanalysis has been criticized as quintessentially “twentieth century,” reflecting a Zeitgeist of scientism, authoritarianism, and modernism that is being challenged and transformed as we enter the twenty-first century. Yet embedded within the modernist twentieth-century ...

Research paper thumbnail of Psychic Trauma and the Seductions of a Painful Past

Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2003

————————————————————————————————— The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from... more ————————————————————————————————— The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from one of painful, formative experience, to one of injustice and the imperative to rectify an untoward event. Journalists, politicians, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of From resistance to resistance A narrative of psychoanalytic activism

Suddenly, no, at last, at long last, I couldn't anymore, I couldn't go on. Someone said, you can'... more Suddenly, no, at last, at long last, I couldn't anymore, I couldn't go on. Someone said, you can't stay here. I couldn't stay there and I couldn't go on.

Research paper thumbnail of Trauma: the Seductive Hypothesis

Journal of The American Psychoanalytic Association, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Psychosocial and trauma response in war-torn societies: supporting traumatized communities through arts and theatre

Research paper thumbnail of Psychosocial and trauma response in war-torn societies: supporting traumatized communities through arts and theatre

Research paper thumbnail of From resistance to resistance: A narrative of psychoanalytic activism

Research paper thumbnail of Ethical concerns about psychologists' participation in interrogation of detainees

Research paper thumbnail of Torturando en la oscuridad

El nuevo libro de Jane Mayer, "The Dark Side", vuelve a centrar su atención en la participación d... more El nuevo libro de Jane Mayer, "The Dark Side", vuelve a centrar su atención en la participación de psicólogos en las torturas y malos tratos a los detenidos por parte de la administración Bush. En uno de los capítulos, Mayer aporta detalles anteriormente desconocidos sobre el papel de los psicólogos James Mitchell y Bruce Jessen en las brutales y "mejoradas técnicas de interrogatorio". Al parecer esas técnicas se apoyan firmemente en la teoría del "indefensión aprendida" desarrollada por el antiguo Presidente de la Asociación Psicológica Americana [USA] Martin Seligman. (El trabajo de Seligman consistió en atormentar perros con choques eléctricos hasta que eran totalmente incapaces o no estaban dispuestos a salir ellos mismos de la dolorosa situación. De ahí la frase "indefensión aprendida"). Mayer informa, y Seligman lo ha confirmado, que, en 2002, Seligman impartió una clase de tres horas en la escuela de la Marina SERE, en San Diego. SERE es el programa denominado Escape, Resistencia, Evasión y Supervivencia del ejército, que intenta inocular a los pilotos, a las fuerzas especiales y a otros potenciales prisioneros de alto nivel, actitudes contra la tortura en caso de que fueran capturados por un poder que no respeta las Convenciones de Ginebra. Al parecer, por razones que no están claras, no fue la Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), que dirige ese programa, quien invitó a Seligman a hacer la presentación sino, directamente, la misma Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA).

Research paper thumbnail of Professional Standards in the Aftermath of Torture

Interrogation and Torture, 2020

In addition to direct effects on detainees, interrogators, intelligence agencies, and law, the U.... more In addition to direct effects on detainees, interrogators, intelligence agencies, and law, the U.S. torture program had additional corrupting influences on other aspects of society. This chapter explores the effects that the torture program had on civil society by exploring its effects on the profession of psychology and on the largest U.S. psychological professional organization, the American Psychological Association (APA). We briefly summarize public knowledge regarding the involvement of psychologists in the CIA and DoD "enhanced interrogation" torture programs. We then describe the public response of the APA as news of this knowledge emerged. However, the public response did not match the APA’s behind-the-scenes actions, as was revealed by a 2015 Independent Review of APA leaders' potential complicity with the torture program conducted by Chicago attorney David Hoffman. The resultant Hoffman Report found a pattern of backchannel collaboration ("collusion&quot...

Research paper thumbnail of Ethics, Human Rights, International Law, and the Discipline of Psychology

Research paper thumbnail of Letter to the Editor re: the Change in Standard 1.02

Research paper thumbnail of The level of integrative failure in borderline and schizophrenic pathology

... Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice. Grand, Stan... more ... Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice. Grand, Stanley; Feiner, Kenneth; Reisner, Steven. Wilson, Arnold (Ed); Gedo, John E. (Ed), (1993). Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice, (pp. 48-75). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Eros reclaimed: Recovering Freud's relational theory

... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Eros reclaimed: Recovering Freud's relational t... more ... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Eros reclaimed: Recovering Freud's relational theory. Relational perspectives in psychoanalysis. Reisner, Steven. Skolnick, Neil J. (Ed); Warshaw, Susan C. (Ed), (1992). Relational perspectives in psychoanalysis, (pp. 281-312). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Torture, and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association

Research paper thumbnail of Suddenly, I couldn't anymore:" On Becoming a Psychoanalyst-Activist

Research paper thumbnail of The Psychoanalytic Activist, Winter 2008

Research paper thumbnail of The call for PENS annulment

Research paper thumbnail of Psychic Trauma and the Seductions of a Painful Past

Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2003

————————————————————————————————— The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from... more ————————————————————————————————— The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from one of painful, formative experience, to one of injustice and the imperative to rectify an untoward event. Journalists, politicians, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Freud and Developmental Theory A 21st-Century Look at the Origin Myth or Psychoanalysis

Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Freud And Psychoanalysis: Into The 21st Century

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1999

Freud's psychoanalysis has been criticized as quintessentially “twentieth century,” reflecti... more Freud's psychoanalysis has been criticized as quintessentially “twentieth century,” reflecting a Zeitgeist of scientism, authoritarianism, and modernism that is being challenged and transformed as we enter the twenty-first century. Yet embedded within the modernist twentieth-century ...

Research paper thumbnail of Psychic Trauma and the Seductions of a Painful Past

Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2003

————————————————————————————————— The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from... more ————————————————————————————————— The story of trauma, in contemporary culture, has shifted, from one of painful, formative experience, to one of injustice and the imperative to rectify an untoward event. Journalists, politicians, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of From resistance to resistance A narrative of psychoanalytic activism

Suddenly, no, at last, at long last, I couldn't anymore, I couldn't go on. Someone said, you can'... more Suddenly, no, at last, at long last, I couldn't anymore, I couldn't go on. Someone said, you can't stay here. I couldn't stay there and I couldn't go on.

Research paper thumbnail of Trauma: the Seductive Hypothesis

Journal of The American Psychoanalytic Association, 2003