Positive illusions and the necessity of a bright line forbidding psychologist involvement in detainee interrogations

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-54

  Olson, Brad ^a   Soldz, Stephen ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis   (United States)

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EID: 37249029220     PISSN: 15297489     EISSN: 15302415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2007.00128.x     Document Type: Note

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