This just in: torture isn’t healthy.
That’s right, the American Psychological Association’s policy-making council has voted to oppose interrogation abuse.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports (italics are mine):
Psychologists who witness interrogators using mock executions, simulated drowning, sexual and religious humiliation, stress positions or sleep deprivation are required to intervene to stop such abuse…. Also ruled out of bounds are the exploitation of prisoners’ phobias, the use of mind-altering drugs, hooding, forced nakedness, the use of dogs to frighten prisoners, exposing prisoners to extreme heat and cold, physical assault and threatening the use of such techniques against a prisoner or a prisoner’s family.
Several psychologists declared that these methods were physically and psychologically damaging to both inmates and captors.
