Psychology and More

This week in Introduction to Psychology, we are covering psychological disorders. The Washington Post has an article on three military interrogators — British, Israeli, and American. We often see articles on torture, but not so much the emotional and psychological toll on the interrogators. One, at least, suffers from anxiety.

The Tortured Lives of Interrogators – washingtonpost.com:

Alone in his apartment, awake most nights, he sits in rumpled jeans and desert combat boots, throwing his Gerber knife at his coffee table. Dirty clothes and beer cans litter the floor. His refrigerator is bare, but his footlocker is full of empty bottles of pills the military doctors prescribed for anxiety.

“It feels like fear. Of what? I’m not sure,” Lagouranis said. “You know what I think it is? You don’t know if you’ll ever regain a sense of self. How could Amy love me? I used to have a strong sense of morals. I was on the side of good. I don’t even understand the sides anymore.”

Next to a mattress on the floor where he sleeps hang his dog tags. Beside it, in the closet, lies a thick brown rope. He has tied it into a noose.

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