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Caplan, Paula Joan was born on July 7, 1947 in Springfield, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Jerome Arnold and Theda Ann (Karchmer) Caplan.
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Caplan, Paula Joan was born on July 7, 1947 in Springfield, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Jerome Arnold and Theda Ann (Karchmer) Caplan.
Bachelor of Arts in English cum laude, Harvard University, 1969. Master of Arts in Psychology, Duke University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, Duke University, 1973.
She is currently an Associate at Harvard University"s DuBois Institute, Director of the Voices of Diversity Project, and is a past Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Previously she was 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 has also taught at Harvard University, Connecticut College, and the University of Rhode Island, has given hundreds of invited addresses, and has done more than 1,000 media interviews about social issues.
She is the author of The Myth of Women"s Masochism and Don"t Blame Mother, plus a number of other books
Since the 1980s, Caplan has been concerned that psychiatric diagnoses are unscientific, that giving someone a psychiatric label does not reduce their suffering, and that labeling them carries enormous risks of harm. She has sought to educate the public about the totally unregulated nature of psychiatric diagnosis and the consequent lack of recourse for people who have been harmed by getting such labels, including the stark fact that getting a psychiatric diagnosis and label often actually stands in the way of recovery.
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Member Brown University Parents Council, 1992-1994. Fellow American Psychological Association (Eminent Woman Psychologist 1996), American Orthopsychiat. Association (fellow program committee member, reviewer convention 1983-1984, program committee member, reviewer Women's Institute 1984-1985), Canada Psychological Association (newsletter editor interest group on women and psychology 1979-1980, institute organizer section on women and psychology 1980-1981, coordinator-elect section on women and psychology 1981-1982, member committee on status women 1982-1984, coordinator section on women and psychology 1982-1983, past coordinator section on women and psychology 1983-1984, committee on nominations 1990-1991).
Member Harvard-Radcliffe Club Toronto (schools committee 1981-1982).
Children: Jeremy Benjamin, Emily Julia.