Provides examples of the ways fraudulent, incompetent, careless or merely self-centered experts in various fields have harmed their clients, and provides advice on how to deal with them

You're Smarter Than They Make You Feel: How the Experts Intimidate Us and What We Can Do About It

CAPLAN, PAULA J.

Self-Help

Free Pr

Explains how the anger, myths, and emotional negativity of the mother-daughter relationship can be replaced with new bonds and images based on respect and understanding

Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Harpercollins

Explains how the anger, myths, and emotional negativity of the mother-daughter relationship can be replaced with new bonds and images based on respect and understanding

Relationships

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 of research to come to realistic, constructive conclusions. All of this is provided in a concise, inexpensive volume by a best-selling trade author and instructor team.

Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender

Caplan, Jeremy B.

Harpercollins College Div

For years, both psychologists and the general public have been fascinated with the notion that there are gender differences in cognitive abilities; even now, flashy cover stories exploiting this idea dominate major news magazines, while research focuses on differences in verbal, mathematical, spatial, and scientific abilities across gender. This new volume in the Counterpoints series not only summarizes and addresses the validity (or invalidity) of such research, but also questions its ideology and consequences. Why do we search so intently for these differences? And what are the social and cultural implications of this relentless emphasis? Do biological mechanisms, in fact, contribute to the male-female differences in cognition? These are just a few of the questions generated by this controversial topic as it is debated throughout the book.

Gender Differences in Human Cognition (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

Hyde, Janet Shibley

Crawford,Mary

Richardson, John T.E.

Oxford University Press

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 mental disorders.

They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal

Da Capo Lifelong Books

The inside story of the process by which the mental-health elite judge us all 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.

Mental Health

Balance

A psychologist's impassioned call to stop labeling our traumatized war veterans as mentally ill and a guide to how every citizen can help returning vets.Traumatized veterans returning from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are often diagnosed as suffering from a psychological 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? 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.

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans

Mit Pr

The authors first demonstrate that much of the existing research on sex and gender is not well-established, and then provide readers with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth of research to come to realistic, constructive conclusions. All of this is provided in a concise, inexpensive volume by a best-selling trade author and instructor team.

Thinking Critically about Research on Sex and Gender (2nd Edition)

Allyn&Bacon

Soon after publication in 1985, The Myth of Women's Masochism became one of the most influential works in women's psychology. Paula Caplan rejects the accepted wisdom that women enjoy pain and abuse, and argues that, on the contrary, much of the pain women endure is to avoid further, or worse, treatment. Women stay with abusive husbands in order, for instance, to protect themselves and their children from the greater suffering of poverty. She makes the point that the quintessentially feminine traits of nurturing, patience, and self-denial are not pathological, as is often stated. Her book confronts the myth of women's masochism as it affects every aspect of women's lives; it challenges psychiatry to change the way it percieves women; and it offers women a positive new view of themselves.In the new preface to this edition, Paula Caplan regrets that most of the data still apply, and speculates why that is. She also provides an update on the views of the American Psychiatric Association on women's masochism, theerby revealing much about the condition of women in our civilization.The Myth of Women's Masochism is likely to remain relevant for some time, a key text for women's studies courses and a source of confidence for women themselves.

The Myth of Women's Masochism.

Personal Transformation

METHUEN

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Books by CAPLAN, PAULA J.

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You're Smarter Than They Make You Feel: How the Experts Intimidate Us and What We Can Do About It

Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship

Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship

Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender

Gender Differences in Human Cognition (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal

They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans

Thinking Critically about Research on Sex and Gender (2nd Edition)

The Myth of Women's Masochism.