Paula Joan Caplan

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Between Women: Lowering the Barriers

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

Academia, Systemic Analysis, Self-help
Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World
"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
Brief, Accessible, Challenges Claims About Cognitive & Emotional Sex Differences
Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender (co-author, Jeremy B. Caplan)
Shows how poor is most research that is used to make claims that there are huge, immutable cognitive, interpersonal, and emotional sex differences
Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental Health System
Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
"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
Relationships, Psychology, Self-Help
Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship
"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



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