Why are those devastated by war or other military experiences called mentally ill? The standard treatment of therapy and drugs can actually be harmful, and huge numbers of suffering veterans from earl
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 wo
The authors first demonstrate that most of the claims about sex and gender are not well supported by research, and then provide readers with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth o
Revealing the way accepted psychological guidelines are established, typically by a conservative group of white males, a cautionary manual argues that standard life problems are often misdiagnosed as
In 1990, Paula Caplan, a nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women, wrote the groundbreaking "Don't Blame Mother." Now, almost ten years later, she finds that we are still blaming mother
Authors demonstrate that most of the claims about sex and gender are not well supported by research, and then provide readers with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth of research
Clinical and research psychologists Caplan (Brown U.) and Cosgrove (U. of Massachusetts) find it alarming that the authors of abnormal psychiatry textbooks entirely ignore the extensive critical liter
Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis is the first book about how gender, race, social class, age, physical disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of human beings into psychiatric catego
