Using Their Training for Torture

Some psychiatrists and psychologists have helped train military interrogators in techniques that amount to psychological torture.

Physician and psychiatrist Daniel Kusnir was appalled that people in his profession “who are supposed to heal and relieve pain” were inflicting injury instead. “It can’t be more perverse.”

—Data from “Abuse was thought out, experts say,” by M.S. Enkoji, Bee Staff Writer, Sacramento Bee, May 7, 2004