Paula Joan Caplan

Events

I'll be teaching the afternoon of May 23 in Providence, RI, at Psychological Centers about "Psychiatric Diagnosis: Problems and Options." CE credits will be available. Info is at http:/​/​events.r20.constantcontact.com/​register/​event?oeidk=a07e78othzwdebccbcd&llr=dfj5p8dab


LISTENING TO VETERANS -- Paula J. Caplan in Providence, RI
Friday May 24, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM EDT

Governors State Room, 2nd Floor RI State House
82 Smith Street
Providence, RI 02903

The Welcome Johnny and Jane Home Project:
Helping Veterans Heal in Non Pathologizing, Low Risk Ways

Paula J Caplan, PhD
DuBois Institute, Harvard University

Friday, May 24, 9:00am -12:15pm

For more than a decade, Veteran Administration leaders have expres­­­sed alarm at the steadily rising rates of distress in war veterans, including suicides (now at 22 per day), homelessness, family breakdown, and substance abuse.

These problems are fueled by what Col. (Ret.) David Sutherland calls "an epidemic of disconnection" between veterans from all wars and people who have not served in the military. Many people mistakenly assume that there is nothing they can do if they are not therapists, however, this could not be further from the truth.

The Welcome Johnny and Jane Home Project offers training for a person who is not a therapist to listen to a veteran from any war, helping the veteran to heal.


Community Access is hosting a panel in NYC called "Beyond Diagnosis: The Pitfalls of Diagnostic Process and Alternatives" on Wednesday May 29, 2013 from 9:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
PLACE: 2 Washington Street 9th Floor.

I will be on the panel, and the other panelists are the wonderful Dr. Alisha Ali, a longtime colleague and friend who has done a great deal to expose, among other things, the racism and sexism of psychiatric diagnosis; and Justin Barron, head of the Recovery Connections Initiative at Community Access and an expert in peer support.

Selected Books (for articles, see lefthand and center columns)

Brief, Accessible, Challenges Claims About Cognitive & Emotional Sex Differences
Shows how poor is most research that is used to make claims that there are huge, immutable cognitive, interpersonal, and emotional sex differences
Relationships, Psychology, Self-Help
"Wise, compassionate, utterly persuasive, completely wonderful, and still timely...a healing work."
--Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., author of Women and Madness and Letters to a Young Feminist
Academia, Systemic Analysis, Self-help
"Lucid, devastating, practical. Caplan's genius is to explore difficult, always heartbreaking areas of injustice, then advise us on how to survive."
--Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., cofounder of Association for Women in Psychology and National Women's Health Network
Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental Health System
"Extraordinarily important ... should be required reading ... excellent illustration of the social construction of what comes to be called science."
--Jean Baker Miller, M.D., Director of Jean Baker Miller Training Institute and author of Toward a New Psychology of Women