The Code Not Taken: The Path From Guild Ethics to Torture and Our Continuing Choices

This article examines tactics used to maintain the façade of professional ethics despite over a decade of publicized reports—in newspapers, professional journals, books, reports published by human rights organizations, and other widely available sources—of documentary evidence of psychology’s organizational involvement in what came to be called “enhanced interrogations.” It asks if we use versions of these tactics in our individual lives. If a credible identity, integrity, and professional ethics are not reflected in our individual lives, it is unlikely they will thrive in our profession and organizations.

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