How Bradley Manning's Treatment Is Tarnishing the Military Psychiatry Profession

[Kurovski]

March 17, 2011 By Lynn Parramore


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...Doctors in the US have been voicing their concern for some months, pointing out that even if military psychiatrists don’t officially sign off on the treatment, they may still be complicit and in violation their duty to protect the health of the patient. Psychologists for Social Responsibility wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates in January, 2010, demonstrating that conditions like those Manning has been subjected to have been known to be traumatic and debilitating to prisoners since 1890.

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The recent resignation of P.J. Crowley, the state department official who voiced disapproval of Manning’s treatment, has sent a message to people who speak freely from their conscience: Do so and you will lose your job. That is quite chilling, and it will require not only extraordinary courage, but committed support from the public, to enable the psychiatrists at Quantico to speak freely about what they are witnessing and what they are asked to facilitate.

President Obama, along with members of Congress, are currently failing these doctors by condoning the torture of Manning. If the doctors speak out and are censured, the offense will be compounded.

Do doctors save lives? Or do they participate in acts which they know to be a violation of the standards of their profession? Where are the boundaries for doctors serving the state? We are waiting for the psychiatrists at Quantico to tell us.



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http://www.alternet.org/story/150281/how_bradley_manning%27s_treatment_is_tarnishing_the_military_psychiatry_profession/

[EFerrari]

1. K&R

:applause:

[leftstreet]

2. Holy Shit! 16 military psych recommendations to take him off POI?

:wow:

I hadn't heard that

Fucking assholes

:grr:

[EFerrari]

4. Yes, exactly. His POI is against medical advice. n/t

[Autumn]

3. So these fuckers won't even listen to

16 military psychiatrists? :grr:

[Kurovski]

6. They also don't listen to millions of Americans re: banksters, war criminals, etc.

There are so few surprises these days, least of all: the rage.

[slipslidingaway]

5. knr nt

[Kurovski]

7. K

:kick:

[Kurovski]

8. Professionals are UN RECOMMENDING? Please, at least two of you

give your opposing view as a psychologist.

[Ilsa]

9. K&R nt

[Kurovski]

10. Come on, let's hear it. Now we gots five experts at minimum...

[libodem]

11. His treatment is

unacceptable! That is one of the reasons we should not torture our enemies, it makes torture techniques an acceptable for any human being, theirs or our own. It will leak into our police forces, and prisons. Osama got his wish related to hatin' on all our fucking freedoms.