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Psychology's service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a "Faustian bargain." In this case, the price paid has been the American Psychological Association's collective silence, ethical "numbing," and, over time, historical amnesia. 3 Indeed, Lifton emphasizes that "the Nazis were not the only ones to involve doctors in evil"; in defense of this ar..
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cold-war
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ethical-violations
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