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The APA Board of Trustees has voted to formally withdraw from participation in Treatment, the joint APA-American Psychological Association electronic journal that published its first online issue in September.
APA’s participation will cease 90 days from December 13, 1997. The Board’s action last month at its meeting in Washington, D.C., was part of an overarching action directing APA to review its electronic publishing activities "as part of a comprehensive examination of the business standards and operations that will govern all its publishing activities."
The decision to suspend participation in Treatment followed the inauguration of an extensive staff study of APA’s publishing activities, including electronic publishing. APA Medical Director Steven Mirin, M.D., will make an initial report to the Board in March of his proposals for consolidation of certain publishing activities and the development of new initiatives.
From its inception, the electronic journal was controversial, centering mainly on concerns about the political uses psychologists might make of the collaboration with psychiatrists (Psychiatric News, October 17, 1997).