Paula Caplan
American psychologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paula Joan Caplan was an American psychologist, activist, writer, and artist. Biography Caplan was an associate at Harvard University's DuBois Institute, director of the Voices of Diversity Project, and a past Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Previously she had been full professor of psychology, assistant professor of psychiatry, and lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of Toronto, as well as head of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education there, and was chosen by the American Psychological Association as an "eminent woman psychologist". She also taught at Harvard University, Connecticut College, and the University of Rhode Island, gave hundreds of invited addresses, and did more than 1,000 media interviews about social issues. She was the author of The Myth of Women's Masochism, Don't Blame Mother, and a number of other books. Her twelfth and final book was When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, which won the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Psychology category.
Paula Caplan's Published Works
Published Works
- Do sex-related differences in spatial abilities exist? A multilevel critique with new data. (1985) (307)
- Mother-blaming in major clinical journals. (1985) (228)
- They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal (1995) (151)
- Baby drops the rattle: asymmetry of duration of grasp by infants. (1976) (139)
- Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World // Review (1993) (128)
- The myth of women's masochism. (1993) (124)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde: How PMS Became a Cultural Phenomenon and a Psychiatric Disorder (2002) (117)
- Thinking critically about research on sex and gender (1998) (102)
- Bias in psychiatric diagnosis. (2004) (90)
- The New Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship (1989) (78)
- How do they decide who is normal? The bizarre, but true, tale of the DSM process. (1991) (60)
- The Voices of Diversity: What Students of Diverse Races/Ethnicities and Both Sexes Tell Us About Their College Experiences and Their Perceptions About their Institutions’ Progress Toward Diversity (2014) (59)
- The scapegoating of mothers: a call for change. (1985) (53)
- Should `Premenstrual Syndrome' be Called a Psychiatric Abnormality? (1992) (44)
- Gender Differences in Mathematics: The Perseverative Search for Sex Differences in Mathematics Ability (2004) (34)
- When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans (2011) (32)
- The Role of Classroom Conduct in the Promotion and Retention of Elementary School Children (1973) (31)
- Do Sex-Related Cognitive Differences Exist, and Why do People Seek them Out? (1997) (28)
- The Debate About PMDD and Sarafem (2004) (25)
- The Psychiatric Association's Failure To Meet Its Own Standards: The Dangers of Self-Defeating Personality Disorder as a Category (1987) (22)
- Gender Differences in Human Cognition. Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language Series. (1997) (21)
- Sex Differences in Response to School Failure (1974) (21)
- Driving us crazy: How oppression damages women's mental health and what we can do about it (1992) (19)
- Toronto multiagency child abuse research project: the abused and the abuser. (1984) (19)
- Barriers between women (1981) (18)
- Gender Issues in the Diagnosis of Mental Disorder (1992) (18)
- Gender Stereotypes in Diagnostic Criteria (2010) (17)
- Is there Empirical Justification for the Category of `Self-Defeating Personality Disorder'? (1991) (16)
- Between women: Lowering the barriers (1981) (16)
- Sex, Age, Behavior, and School Subject as Determinants of Report of Learning Problems (1977) (14)
- Delusional dominating personality disorder: A modest proposal for identifying some consequences of rigid masculine socialization. (1991) (14)
- Delusional Dominating Personality Disorder (1991) (12)
- Making Mother-Blaming Visible: (1990) (10)
- Sex differences in antisocial behavior: does research methodology produce or abolish them? (1975) (9)
- Erikson's concept of inner space: a data-based reevaluation. (1979) (8)
- Teaching Critical Thinking about Psychology of Sex and Gender (2010) (6)
- Sexual Trauma in the Military: Needed Changes in Policies and Procedures (2013) (6)
- The magnified molehill and the misplaced focus: Sex-related differences in spatial ability revisited. (1986) (6)
- Critical criminology: Trust me, I'm telling you stories (1991) (5)
- What's Happening these Days with the DSM? (1991) (5)
- Ambiguity, Powerlessness, and the Psychologizing of Trauma (2006) (5)
- A comparison of child abuse and child neglect (1986) (5)
- The Name Game (1987) (4)
- Sex Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Courts (2012) (4)
- Response to the DSM Wizard. (1991) (4)
- Reply to Mary Brown Parlee's Commentary on PMS and Psychiatric Anomaly (1992) (3)
- Referral, intervention, and outcome in Canadian child abuse cases (1985) (3)
- Sex Differences in Determinants of Antisocial Behavior. (1973) (2)
- Le « syndrome d'aliénation parentale » (2007) (2)
- Weak Ego Boundaries (1995) (2)
- Is there a relationship between child abuse and learning disability (1986) (2)
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2001) (2)
- Elephant in the Living Room: “Obesity Epidemic,” Psychiatric Drugs, and Psychiatric Diagnosis (2012) (2)
- Beyond the box score: a boundary condition for sex differences in aggression and achievement striving. (1979) (2)
- SEX DIFFERENCES IN A DELINQUENT CLINIC POPULATION (1980) (2)
- Vets Aren’t Crazy—War Is (2007) (1)
- The anatomy of dominance and self-protection. (1991) (1)
- Rules for new drug development need a serious overhaul (2007) (1)
- Balancing Career and Family (2013) (1)
- Comment: Fat pills (2008) (1)
- Diagnosisgate: Conflict of Interest at the Top of the Psychiatric Apparatus (2015) (1)
- The psychological is political. (2004) (0)
- First the Bad News (1994) (0)
- 5. Women in Relationships with Men (1993) (0)
- Women’s Relationships with Women (1981) (0)
- 8. Women at Work (1993) (0)
- Psychiatric Diagnosis as a Last Bastion of Unregulated, Rampant Harm to the Populace (2013) (0)
- "Mother blaming": The authors reply. (1986) (0)
- Another Damaging Use of the “Schizophrenia” Label . . . and What Seemed About to Help (2020) (0)
- The Great "Crazy" Cover-up and Its Human Costs (2013) (0)
- The "Times Is Not A-Changin'": Your Impression of the "New York Times" and Other Prestigious Book Review Publications (Present Company Excluded) Is Correct: The Women Are Missing (2004) (0)
- 1. Why Do You Do This to Yourself (1993) (0)
- Psyching women out (1986) (0)
- Review of Jewish women in therapy: Seen but not heard. (1992) (0)
- Recent Case Raises Hopes for Reducing Harm from Psychiatric Labelling: A Blow Against “Weaponized Diagnosis” (2015) (0)
- Growing up Jewish: The Shaping of One Activist (2010) (0)
- Obituary: Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923-1992). (1996) (0)
- 9. Women in Therapy (1993) (0)
- Listening to Veterans: The Welcome Johnny and Jane Home Project (2012) (0)
- Helping parents help their children (1976) (0)
- 6. Women’s Bodies (1993) (0)
- Editorial (2020) (0)
- Don't call our soldiers crazy (2007) (0)
- 7. Women as Victims of Violence (1993) (0)
- Daughter-Mother Conflict (1981) (0)
- Review of the father’s role: Applied perspectives. Michael E. Lamb (Ed.) (1986) (0)
- Don’t Blame Mother: (1989) (0)
- Comment on book review. (1984) (0)
- 10. The Beginning (1993) (0)
- 2. What the “Experts” Have Said (1993) (0)
- Le «syndrome d’aliénation parentale» [Introduction et traduction de Léo Thiers-Vidal] (2007) (0)
- Lowering the Barriers (1981) (0)
- Response to commentators. (1991) (0)
- 4. The Child’s Growth Toward “Masochism”: “Expert” Opinion and Reality (1993) (0)
- A Page-Turner with a Social Conscience: Requiem for a Serial Killer by Phyllis Chesler (2021) (0)
- Preface (1993 Edition) (1993) (0)
- Book Review: Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, by Phyllis Chesler. New York: Avalon, 2001. 552 pp., $24.95 (cloth) (2003) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 18, 1975 (1975) (0)
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