Alfred W. McCoy Quote
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 argument, he cites the Cold War role of …American physicians and psychologists employed by the Central Intelligence Agency…for unethical medical and psychological experiments involving drugs and mind manipulation. 4
Alfred W. McCoy
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 argument, he cites the Cold War role of …American physicians and psychologists employed by the Central Intelligence Agency…for unethical medical and psychological experiments involving drugs and mind manipulation. 4
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About Alfred W. McCoy
Alfred William McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is an American historian and educator. He is the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He specializes in the history of the Philippines, foreign policy of the United States, European colonisation of Southeast Asia, illegal drug trade, and Central Intelligence Agency covert operations.