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They Say You're Crazy

How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal

By: Paula J. Caplan

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They Say You're Crazy

How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal

By: Paula J. Caplan

How are decisions made about who is normal? As a former consultant to those who construct the “bible of the mental-health professions,” the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Paula Caplan offers and insider's look at the process by which decisions about abnormality are made. Cutting through the professional psycho-babble, Caplan clearly assesses the astonishing extent to which scientific methods and evidence are disregarded as the handbook is developed. A must read for consumers and practitioners of the mental-health establishment, which through its creation of potentially damaging interpretations and labels, has the power to alter our lives in devastating ways.

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Da Capo Lifelong Books

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0201488329

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9780201488326

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home

How All of Us Can Help Veterans

By: PAULA J. CAPLAN

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How All of Us Can Help Veterans

By: PAULA J. CAPLAN

Traumatized veterans are often diagnosed as suffering from a psychiatric disorder and prescribed a regimen of psychotherapy and psychiatric drugs. But why, asks psychologist Paula J. Caplan in this impassioned book, is it a mental illness to be devastated by war or other intolerable experiences such as military sexual assault? What is a mentally healthy response to death, destruction, and moral horror? In When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Caplan argues that the standard treatment of therapy and drugs is often actually harmful. It adds to veterans' burdens by making them believe wrongly that they should have "gotten over it"; it isolates them behind the closed doors of the therapist's office; and it makes them rely on often harmful drugs. The numbers of traumatized veterans from past and present wars who continue to suffer demonstrate the ineffectiveness of this approach. Sending anguished veterans off to talk to therapists, writes Caplan, conveys the message that the rest of us don't want to listen—or that we don't feel qualified to listen. As a result, the truth about war is kept under wraps. Most of us remain ignorant about what war is really like—and continue to allow our governments to go to war without much protest. Caplan proposes an alternative: that we welcome veterans back into our communities and listen to their stories, one-on-one. (She provides guidelines for conducting these conversations.) This would begin a long overdue national discussion about the realities of war, and it would start the healing process for our returning veterans.

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Scribl

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1633481840

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9781633481848

Lifting a Ton of Feathers

A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World

By: Paula J. Caplan

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Lifting a Ton of Feathers

A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World

By: Paula J. Caplan

Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves. Caplan demonstrates that while many women believe that when they fail it is their fault, their fate is more likely to be sealed by their encounter with the male environment, and by the manner in which they are tossed about by it. She aims to help women avoid self-blame and understand the real sources of their problems. Readers will find the information about the mine-field of academia for women infuriating, but the means of telling it highly entertaining. Women account for more than half of all undergraduate students in the US and Canada, yet they make up only 10 per cent of faculty members at the level of full professor. What happens to women between freshman level, the tenure track, and the ensuing following professional years that keeps them out of the highest levels of academia? Paula Caplan is herself a veteran of the academic career struggle, and she sets out to explore this question with not only her own observations but also those of many women whom she has interviewed, and with a strong backing of established research. With these tools she provides a clear-eyed assessment of what women who have embarked on an academic career, and those who are considering it, may expect. Forewarned is forearmed, and Caplan presents a list of the forms that the maleness of the environment take: two of these are the conflict between professional and family responsibilities, and sexual harassment. In addition, her book offers advice on practical techniques of how to prepare a curriculum vitae, how to handle job interviews, and how to apply for promotions and tenure. A final chapter is a unique checklist which serves two purposes: to provide guidance in a search for a woman-positive institution and to give suggestions for ways individual women, and women in groups, can work to improve the situation at their own institutions.

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298

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University of Toronto Press

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1442655267

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9781442655263

The New Don't Blame Mother

Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship

By: Paula Caplan

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The New Don't Blame Mother

Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship

By: Paula Caplan

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135958955

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Lifting a Ton of Feathers

A Woman's Guide for Surviving in the Academic World

By: Paula Caplan,Paula J. Caplan

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A Woman's Guide for Surviving in the Academic World

By: Paula Caplan,Paula J. Caplan

Forewarned is forearmed, and Caplan presents a list of the forms that the maleness of the environment take: two of these are the conflict between professional and family responsibilities, and sexual harassment.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802074111

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9780802074119

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home

How All of Us Can Help Veterans

By: PAULA J. CAPLAN

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How All of Us Can Help Veterans

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The Myth of Women's Masochism

By: Paula J. Caplan

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The Myth of Women's Masochism

By: Paula J. Caplan

Argues that women are no more masochistic than men, explains why the myth developed, and discusses women in therapy, at work, and as victims of violence

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New Amer Library

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0451147383

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Book's by PAULA J. CAPLAN

They Say You're Crazy

They Say You're Crazy

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home

Lifting a Ton of Feathers

Lifting a Ton of Feathers

The New Don't Blame Mother

The New Don't Blame Mother

Lifting a Ton of Feathers

Lifting a Ton of Feathers

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home

The Myth of Women's Masochism

The Myth of Women's Masochism

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