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On December 9, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued the Executive Summary of its report detailing the CIA's use of torture against prisoners and detainees. A week later, on December 16, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) issued its report, “Doing Harm: Health Professionals' Central Role in the CIA Torture Program: Medical and Psychological Analysis of the 2014 U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report's Executive Summary (see physiciansforhumanrights.org). In its report, PHR detailed the participation of health professionals, including psychologists, in designing and implementing the CIA's program of torture. In January 2007, following the investigations into the treatment of prisoners and detainees in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, and Afghanistan, the governing board of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) issued its statement condemning the use of psychology, psychiatry, and medicine as instruments of torture and reaffirming psychoanalysis as a theory, method, and procedure of science, scholarship, and healing (see Bennett Simon's article in the Winter/Spring 2007 issue of “The American Psychoanalyst,” volume 41, page 7). We reprint the APsaA 2007 statement here—The Editor.