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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT – PAULA CAPLANadmin2022-03-25T09:45:45-04:00

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.

Read the Transcript

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:

  • Interview about Gun Violence on SiriusXM
  • Interview on Refugee Child Separations
  • Podcast about psychiatric diagnosis
  • Podcast about veterans

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