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[1] From O pEdNews Op Eds 7/23/2008 at 07:10:18 , Torture in the Dark: Torture, and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association By Stephen Soldz, Brad Olson, Steven Reisner, Jean Maria Arrigo, Bryant Welch.
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[3] SERE stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape, a Department of Defense program meant to inoculate soldiers to resist torture. Seligman said the CIA and military appear to have hijacked his learned helplessness work without his knowledge or consent. "I am grieved and horrified that good science, which has helped so many people overcome depression, may have been used for such dubious purposes," he wrote in an e-mail. "Most importantly, I have never and would never provide assistance in torture. I strongly disapprove of it."
Similarly, Seligman says he doesn't know anything about how or why the military early this year steered the $31 million resilience-training contract to his psychology center with no other competition allowed. "I just don't know," Seligman wrote. "Government contracting is way above my level of knowledge or competence." (from http://www.salon.com/2010/10/14/army_contract_seligman/).
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