Larry C. James is an American

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

, author and former officer in the

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. He served as

Joint Task Force Guantanamo Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of the base. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command. Since January 2002 the command ...

's chief psychologist in 2003, and as

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's chief psychologist in 2004.

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James has also served on the Presidential Task Force on Military Deployment Services for Youth, Families and Service Members. In 2008, James was hired as the Dean of

Wright State University Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio, United States. Originally opened in 1964 as a branch campus of Miami University and Ohio State University, it became an independent institution in 1967 and was named in ...

's School of Professional Psychology. In 2008 he published a memoir, entitled: ''" Fixing Hell: An Army Psychologist Confronts Abu Ghraib"''. A review in the ''

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'' described the book as James's defense against insinuations he was a "torture shrink", and noted: : Trudy Bond, another psychologist, requested in 2008 that the

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State Board of Examiners of Psychologists review the ethics of James' work in Guantanamo. When the board dismissed Bond's complaint she requested the Board's actions be reviewed by the state court. State District Judge Mike Caldwell ruled he did not have jurisdiction over the Board. In July 2010, Deborah Popowski, Terry Lodge and Tyler Giannini filed a challenge to James's right to practice psychology with the Ohio Board of Psychology. In June 2013, the Ohio state court dismissed the case on procedural grounds and ruled that Ohio's psychology licensing board did not have a legal obligation to conduct an investigation into Dr. James.Deborah Popowski (September 3, 2013
Ohio Court Rules Licensing Board Need Not Investigate Torture Allegations Against Local Psychologist
Human Rights@Harvard Law. Retrieved May 26, 2017.

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Top Bush-era GITMO and Abu Ghraib psychologist is WH's newest appointment
Glenn Greenwald

*[http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project/testimonies/testimonies-of-military-psychologists-index/testimony-of-col-ret-larry-c-james Testimony of Colonel Larry C. James] * 21st-century American psychologists Wright State University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-army-bio-stub

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