APA Changes CEO Search Committee in Response to Criticism

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We reported earlier this week that the American Psychological Association (APA) had come under renewed criticism over three controversial appointments to its search committee for a new CEO. Today, the APA board of directors announced that it has changed the composition of the search committee in response to this pressure.

The board was strongly criticized by Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) and others for appointing three members to the search committee who were implicated in the Hoffman report, which unveiled the APAs involvement in the CIA torture program.

One of the new appointees to the search committee is Emily Voelkel, a student representative who recently spoke out on behalf of students about the recent scandal at APA.

For the post by APA showing the revised search committee click here→

 

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Justin Karter
Justin M. Karter, PhD, leads research news coverage and editorial strategy at Mad in America. He is the Acting Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Humanities at Boston College and part-time faculty with the Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics. His scholarship examines historical and cultural formations of mind, subjectivity, and personhood; the roles of activist movements and lived-experience communities, including the consumer/survivor/ex-patient (C/S/X) tradition; and how mental health discourses shape institutions, practices, and identities. He works across mad studies, critical psychology, philosophy of psychology, and rights-based global mental health. Methodologically, he specializes in critical qualitative inquiry and psychotherapy process research grounded in intersubjective and phenomenological approaches. He is the President of APA Division 24 (2025-26) and serves on the Executive Board of Division 32. Previously, he was a Research Officer to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. He earned his PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where his dissertation examined psychosocial disability advocacy in the global mental health movement. He also holds graduate degrees in Journalism and Community Psychology from Point Park University.

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