THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Dr. Paula Joan Caplan
July 7, 1947 – July 21, 2021
“Don’t Ever Be Afraid To Be Wrong.”
Psychologist. Author. Playwright. Scholar. Advocate/activist. Speaker. Actor.
Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Board
Photo 1. Dr. Paula Joan Caplan. Photo 2. Paula in 1985.
More About Paula:
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Papers of Paula J. Caplan
- Full CV
- Playwright’s Biography
- Paula Caplan Obituary
Websites:
- Authors Guild
- Ending harm from Psychiatric Diagnosis
- Listen to a Veteran! Project
- When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of us Can Help Veterans
- Videos of two dozen people describing nonpathologizing ways to reduce suffering, from “A Better Welcome Home for Veterans” Harvard Ash Center Conference, organized by Paula.
Films:
- Documentary-in-progress, “Execution by the Numbers,” hosted by Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute on Race and Justice. October 8, 2020
- Video of Paula’s stage play, “Call Me Crazy” – Is anybody normal? And who gets to decide? And how do they decide? A young therapy trainee on the last day of her internship starts to question the supervisor she has respected and trusted all year.
- Is Anybody Listening
- Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an American Century
- Meet the Filmmakers Interview about “Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an American Century” film
- Videos from “A Better Welcome Home for Veterans” Conference
- The Test
Videos of Selected Lectures and Speeches
About Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters and Between Women
- United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Conference (Paula’s talk is from 16:34-31:17)
- Women Working Together in the Workplace
Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Mental Health System
- Jo Watson interviews Paula Caplan, the truth about psychiatric diagnosis, “A Disorder for Everyone.” September 2020
- Brief videos about harm from psychiatric diagnosis
- Psychiatric diagnosis is totally unregulated
- “There Are No rules about Psychiatric Diagnosis- And That Must End. ”
- Psychiatric Survivors Speak Up
- Losing Labels to Find Ourselves
- Deciding Who is Normal
- A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) conference in Leeds, UK
- Psychiatrists decide who’s normal
- Psychiatric Diagnosis Bias
- Sexism in Psychiatry
- How I Got Involved in the DSM Process
- Why the DSM & Psychiatric Diagnosis?
- Challenging DSM Categories
- What is Wrong with Psychiatric Diagnosis?
About Veterans
- How to Help Returning Veterans Heal
- Veterans Helping Veterans
- Welcome Johnny & Jane Project
- ISEPP Los Angeles 2011
- Healing Veterans
- The Gloria Greer Show – part 1
- The Gloria Greer Show – part 2
- Listen to a Veteran! Project
Audio: