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Victoria N. Shi Licensed psychologists follow a set of ethical standards enforceable by law. Don’t fuck your patients, commit no felonies, refer out if you don’t know what to do, stuff like that. Then there are aspirational principles. More like ideals, inspiring better conduct because actual perfection isn’t achievable. “Do no harm” can get ambiguous, as language does (especially where action is concerned). Much of this code of conduct was built because some of us got involved with historical atrocities. We were not always healers. When the Geneva Conventions stipulated against torture, psychologists developed the workarounds. In 2002, this was