Science Isn't Golden

The elimination of funding for the Violence Against Women Act must be prevented.

Play

Awardwinning Play, Film About Humans, not Psychopathology

Paula J. Caplan Ph.D. on November 8, 2016

Are you tired of plays and movies focused on people's pathology and meanness? Awardwinning play opening November 9 might be for you!

Are you tired of plays and movies focused on people's pathology and meanness? Awardwinning play opening November 9 might be for you!

Whispered about but generally hidden, the dramatic decrease of support for veterans must be exposed and changed.

Psychiatry

Top Psychiatrist's Stunning Announcement About Gun Violence

Paula J. Caplan Ph.D. on October 8, 2015

American Psychiatric Association speaks the truth about gun violence and mental illness, but politicians ignore her.

American Psychiatric Association speaks the truth about gun violence and mental illness, but politicians ignore her.

Imprecise use of language often reflects cloudy thinking, causes further clouding, and can cause serious harm.

Bonnie Burstow's new book tracks forces that cause devastation of people's lives in the mental health system

Post-Independence Day thoughts about what needs to change.

Proclaim "We Are All Emanuel A.M.E. Church!" in solidarity with the massive, needed struggle against racism

Nonveterans have civic responsibility to listen to veterans, new Public Service Announcement campaign begins

Misogyny in the mental health system warrants special attention during Women's History Month.

Time to celebrate what women have achieved, while vowing to impel the work that remains to be done.

Too few nonveterans know how anyone can help a veteran, but here are dozens of simple ways

Congressman Raul Ruiz is a model of serving constituents by impelling real change.

A personal essay about war, independence, and liberation

The whole truth about the VA's mistreatment of veterans -- and society's ignoring of them -- must come out.

Devaluing of Mothers and Motherhood Myths Continue to Thrive

Brave, new movie exposes deep and pervasive need for equal rights amendment.

Rewriting the history of the successive editions of the psychiatric diagnostic manual causes harm.

Sexism in the workplace persists and results in human rights violations

Activists about military sexual assault have made important changes and are rightly impatient for much more.