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American Psychological Association

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American Psychological Association

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American Psychological Association is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between July 14, 2023 and February 27, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The American Psychological Association : It is [the] environment that creates the handicaps and barriers, not the disability”; “the American Psychological Association and UCSF badly need to update those pages”; “Steven Pinker resigned from (X) the American Psychological Association”. It most often appears alongside biopsychosocial model, Medical Model, NASA.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: July 14, 2023
  • Last seen: February 27, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Contra The Social Model Of Disability
July 14, 2023 · Original source
The American Psychological Association:
Inline links: The American Psychological Association
Highlights From The Comments On Social Model Of Disability
July 25, 2023 · Original source
Scott is right, however, to point out that popular discussion of disability has really stuck on to the Social Model past its shelf life; the American Psychological Association and UCSF badly need to update those pages. While medical organizations should not uncritically cite the social model without emendation, the activist orgs Scott cites I assume are drawing from Oliver’s perspective, and foregrounding the Social Model as a beginner-friendly training wheel into larger debates about Disability. Such a method isn’t without precedence, one can think of how LGBTQ groups still talk about how “sex/gender is to nature/culture” eons after feminist academics have jettisoned that maxim. I think any arguments against this practice among activist groups needs to take place on rhetorical grounds rather than rational ones.
Links For February 2025
February 27, 2025 · Original source
32: Related: Psychology is doubling down on wokeness (X). And Steven Pinker resigned from (X) the American Psychological Association, accusing them of anti-Semitism.
Inline links: Psychology is doubling down on wokeness (X), resigned from (X), of anti-Semitism