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Publications

Doctoral Dissertation
Sex differences in children's response to failure. Duke University, 1973.

Books
Caplan, Paula J. The New Don’t Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship.
New York: Routledge, 2000.

Caplan, Paula J.; Crawford, Mary; Hyde, Janet Shibley; & Richardson, John T.E. Gender
Differences in Human Cognition (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, & Language
Series). New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Caplan, Paula J. They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide
Who’s Normal. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
--Excerpt, “Delusional Dominating Personality Disorder,” in Rain and Thunder: A Radical
Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, Autumn Equinox, 2001, Issue #12, pp.17-
18.

Caplan, Paula J. You’re Smarter Than They Make You Feel: How the Experts Intimidate Us and
What We Can Do About It. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
--German edition Keine Angst vor Autoritaten: Wie Patienten, Kunden und Verbraucher
ihre Interessen durchsetzen. Munchen: Knaur, 1995.

Caplan, Paula J.; & Caplan, Jeremy B. Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
--Second edition. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.

Caplan, Paula J. Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide To Surviving in the Academic World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Caplan, Paula J. Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
--Paperback: Harper and Row, 1990.
--Brazilian edition in Portuguese, Nao culpe sua mae. Sao Paulo: Edicoes Siciliano, 1990.
--German edition, So Viel Liebe So Viel Hass: Zur Verbesserung Der Mutter-Tochter- Beziehung. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1990.
--Dutch edition, Moedders & Dochters: Zoveel liefde, zoveel haat. Over het verbeteren van de moeder-dochter relatie. BV Uitgeverij De Kern, Baarn, 1991.
--French edition, C’est Pas La Faute des Meres! Le Jour Editeur.
--Forthcoming Spanish edition by Javier Vergara.
--Forthcoming Japanese edition.
--Psychology Today Book Club selection.
--Jason Aronson Psychotherapy Book Club selection.
--Serial right to London, England, Daily Express.
--In audiocassette, Nightingale Conant, Winning Woman series.

Caplan, Paula J. The Myth of Women's Masochism. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985.
--New edition with new Preface published December, 1993, Toronto:
University of Toronto Press.
--Excerpted in Cosmopolitan, October, 1985.
--Psychology Today Book Club selection.
--British hard cover edition, Methuen, 1986.
--British paperback edition, Women's Masochism: The Myth Destroyed, Mandarin Paperbacks, 1989.
--North American paperback edition, Signet, 1987.
--German edition, Frauen sind keine Masochisten: Das Ende eines Vorurteils. Benziger Verlag: Zurich, Koln, 1986.
--Swedish edition, Myten om kvinnors Masochism. Wahlstrom & Widstrand: Stockholm, 1987.

Caplan, Paula J. Between Women: Lowering the Barriers. Toronto: Personal Library, 1981. (Earlier version published as Barriers Between Women. Jamaica, N.Y.: SP Medical and Scientific Publications, 1981.)
--Barriers Between Women, Japanese translation published through Japan UNI Agency, Inc.
Kinsbourne, Marcel & Caplan, Paula J. Children's Learning and Attention Problems. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979 (now in its 2nd printing).
--Spanish translation, Ediciones Cientificas, La Prensa Medica Mexicana, 1984.

Special Issues of Journal Edited
Four special issues on Feminist Psychology, International Journal of Women's Studies, January/February, March/April, September/October and November/December, 1985, issues.

First issue is on "Single Life and Married Life" and "Women's Sexuality." Second issue is on "Research on Therapy with Women" and "Feminist Psychologists." Third issue is on "Women in Groups" and "Aggression Against Women." Fourth issue is on "Sex Roles and Sex Differences" and "Androgyny."

Monographs
Coordinator and Co-author of Equality Eve Report: What Women Want. Toronto: Equality Eve Group. June 1, 1991.

Caplan, Paula J. Co-author and co-editor (member of Women and Mental Health Committee, Canadian Mental Health Association), Women and Mental Health in Canada: Strategies for Change. Toronto: Canadian Mental Health Association, 1987.

Watters, Jessie; Caplan, Paula; White, Georgina; Bates, Robert; & Parry, Ruth. Toronto Multi-agency Child Abuse Research Project Report. Toronto: The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, 1986 (85 pages).

Curriculum Units
Caplan, Paula, J., & Summers, Jane. Teaching Children About Learning Disabilities. Toronto: Green Dragon Press, 1990.

Caplan, Paula J.; Secord-Gilbert, Margaret; & Staton, Pat. Teaching Children To Think Critically About Sexism and Other Forms of Bias. Toronto: Green Dragon Press, 1990.

Chapters
Caplan, Paula J. Motherhood: Its changing face. Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Volume Two. (Academic Press, 2001), pp. 783-794.

Caplan, Paula J. Seeking serenity as a single Jewish mother. In Rachel Josefowitz Siegel, Ellen Cole, and Susan Steinberg-Oren (Eds.), Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage. New York: Haworth, 2000, pp.237-42.

Caplan, Paula J. Don’t Blame Mother: Then and Now. In Andrea O’Reilly and Sharon
Abbey (Eds.), Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation. (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 237-245.

Caplan, Paula J. Mother-blaming. In Molly Ladd-Taylor & Lauri Umansky (Eds.), “Bad” Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America. New York: New York University Press, 1998, pp.127-44.

Caplan, Paula J. Mothers, Judaism, and true honor. In Rachel Josefowitz Siegel and Ellen
Cole (Eds.), Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women: Patterns in a Feminist Sampler.
New York: Haworth, 1997, pp. 39-44.

Caplan, Paula J. Foreword for Evelyn K. Sommers, Voices from Within: Women Who Have
Broken the Law. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995, pp.ix-x.

Caplan, Paula J. The justice system’s endorsement of mental health assessors’ sexism and other biases: Charter issues and other forms of injustice. In Bernard Dickens & Monique
Ouellette (Eds.), Health Care, Ethics and Law/Soins de sante, ethique et droit. Canadian
Institute for the Administration of Justice/Institut canadien d’administration de la justice. Les editions Themis, 1993, pp.79-87.

Caplan, Paula J. Concepts of "merit" and systemic discrimination. In Changing Focus: The Future for Women in the Canadian Film and Television Industry. Toronto: Toronto Women in Film and Television, 1991, pp. 146-149.

Caplan, Paula J. Making mother-blaming visible: The emperor's new clothes. In Jane Price Knowles (M.D.) and Ellen Cole (Ed.), Woman-Defined Motherhood. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc., 1990, pp. 61-70.

Caplan, Paula J. Preface for Morris Kokin and Ian Walker, Women Married to Alcoholics. New York: William Morrow, 1989.

Caplan, Paula J. The name game: Psychiatry, misogyny, and taxonomy. In Marjorie Braude (Ed.), Women, Power, and Therapy: Issues for Women. New York: Haworth, 1988, pp. 187-202.

Caplan, Paula J. Between women: Lowering the barriers. In J. H. Robbins & R. J. Siegel (Eds.), Women Changing Therapy. Haworth Press, 1983.
--Also published in Women and Therapy 2, 1983, 51-66.
Caplan, Paula J. Beyond the box score: A search for boundary conditions in aggression and achievement behavior. In Brendan Maher (Ed.), Progress in Experimental Personality Research, Vol. 9, 1979, 41-87.

Papers (Refereed Journals)
Caplan, Paula J. (2001) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A first-person story. Women and Therapy special issue on Minding the Body 23 (1), 23-43. (Invited paper)
--Simultaneously published in Minding the Body: Psychotherapy in Cases of Chronic and Life-Threatening Illness. Ellyn Kaschak (Ed.). New York: The Haworth Press, pp. 23-43.

Caplan, Paula J. (1999) Review of Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical
Guide by Kenneth S. Pope and Melba J.T. Vasquez. In Women and Therapy 22 (4),
108-110. Ellyn Kaschak (Ed.). New York: The Haworth Press, 2001, pp. 23-43.

Caplan, Paula J. (1995). “Weak ego boundaries”: One developing feminist’s story. Women and
Therapy special issue on Feminist Foremothers, 17, 113-23. (Invited paper)
--Simultaneously published in Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health. Phyllis Chesler, Esther D. Rothblum, & Ellen Cole (Eds.). New York: The Haworth Press, 1995, pp.113-23.

Caplan, Paula J. (1992). What should we ask about women and therapy? Canada's Mental Health 40, 25-6 (Health and Welfare Canada).

Caplan, Paula J. (1992). Gender issues in the diagnosis of mental disorder. Women and Therapy 12, 71-82.

Caplan, Paula J. (1992). Driving us crazy: How oppression damages women’s mental health and what we can do about it. Women and Therapy 12, 5-28..

Larkin, June, & Caplan, Paula J. (1992). The gatekeeping process of the DSM. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health/Revue canadienne de sante mentale communautaire 11,
17-28.

Caplan, Paula J. Review of Jewish women in therapy: Seen but not heard (Rachel Josefowitz Siegel & Ellen Cole, Eds.). Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 33, 112-115.

Caplan, Paula J.; McCurdy-Myers, Joan; & Gans, Maureen. Should "premenstrual syndrome" be called a psychiatric abnormality? Feminism and Psychology, 2, 1992, 27-44.

Caplan, Paula J.; McCurdy-Myers, Joan; & Gans, Maureen. Reply to Mary Brown Parlee's commentary on PMS and psychiatric abnormality. Feminism and Psychology, 2, 1992, 109.

Caplan, Paula J., & Gans, Maureen. Is there empirical justification for the category of "Self-defeating Personality Disorder"? Feminism and Psychology, 1, 1991, 263-278.

Caplan, Paula J., & Larkin, June. The anatomy of dominance and self-protection. American Psychologist, 46(5), 1991, 536.

Pantony, Kaye-Lee, & Caplan, Paula J. Delusional dominating personality disorder: A modest proposal for identifying some consequences of rigid masculine socialization. Canadian Psychology, 32(2), 1991, 120-133.

Pantony, Kaye-Lee, & Caplan, Paula J. Response to commentators. Canadian Psychology, 32(2), 1991, 161.

Caplan, Paula J. How do they decide who is normal? The bizarre, but true, tale of the DSM
process. Canadian Psychology, 32(2), 1991, 162-170.

Caplan, Paula J. Response to the DSM wizard. Canadian Psychology, 32(2), 1991, 174-175.

Caplan, Paula J. Delusional Dominating Personality Disorder (DDPD). Feminism & Psychology, 1(1), 1991, 171-174.

Caplan, Paula J., & Wilson, Jeffery. Assessing the child custody assessors. Reports of Family Law, Third Series, 27(2), October 25, 1990.

Caplan, Paula J. The path of the female hero (essay, part book review of Marcia Westkott's The
Feminist Legacy of Karen Horney. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, and Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Role Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule's Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1986), Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, 2, December, 1987, 16-19. (Invited essay).

Caplan, Paula J. The psychiatric association's failure to meet its own standards: The dangers of
"self-defeating personality disorder" as a category. Journal of Personality Disorders,
1(2), Summer, 1987, 178-182.

Caplan, Paula J. Take the blame off mother. Psychology Today, 20, 1986, 70-7l.
--Reprinted as Caplan, Paula J. Haven't we blamed mother long enough? Washington Post Health, January 20, 1987, p. 12.
--Reprinted as Take the blame off mother. In For Women Only! Your Guide to
Health Empowerment. Gary Null & Barbara Seaman (Eds.). New York: Seven
Stories Press, 1999, pp. 1162-1165.

Caplan, Paula J.; MacPherson, Gael M.; & Tobin, Patricia. The magnified molehill and the misplaced focus: Sex-related differences in spatial abilities revisited. American Psychologist, 41, 1986, 1016-1018.

Caplan, Paula J., & DiNardo, Linda. Is there a relationship between child abuse and learning disability? Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 18(4), 1986.
--Presented at University of Toronto Child Psychiatry Research Day. March, 1984.
--Presented at Canadian Psychological Association Convention. Ottawa, 1984.

Caplan, P. J. Introduction to special issue on sex roles and sex differences and androgyny. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8, 1985, 437-440.

Caplan, Paula J. Antifeminist women. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8, 1985, 351-355.

Caplan, Paula J. Sex roles and sex differences: Introduction. International Journal of Women's
Studies, 8, 1985, 441-448.

Caplan, Paula J. Women in groups. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8, 1985, 305-309.

Caplan, Paula J., & Hall-McCorquodale, Ian. Mother-blaming in major clinical journals. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 55, 1985, 345-353.

Caplan, Paula J. & Hall-McCorquodale, Ian. The scapegoating of mothers: A call for change. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 55, 1985, 610-613.
--Reprinted in Jean E. Veevers (Ed.) (1991). Continuity & change in marriage & family. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, pp.295-8.

Caplan, Paula J.; MacPherson, Gael; & Tobin, Patricia. Do sex-related differences in spatial abilities exist? A multi-level critique with new data. American Psychologist, 40, 1985, 786-799.

Caplan, Paula J.; Watters, Jessie; White, Georgina; Parry, Ruth; & Bates, Robert. Referral, intervention, and outcome in Canadian child abuse cases. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 17, 1985, 150-16l.
--Reprinted in Ontario Collection, Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, 1985, 51-64.

Caplan, Paula J. Introduction to special issue on single life and married life and women's sexuality. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8(1), 1985, 5.

Caplan, Paula, J. Single life and married life. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8(1), 1985, 6-11.

Caplan, Paula J. Introduction to special issue on women in therapy and feminist psychologists. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8(2), 1985, 101.

Caplan, Paula J. Feminist psychologists: The present and the future. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8(2), 1985, 167.

Caplan, Paula J. Sex-based manipulation in the clinical psychologist's workplace. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8(2), 1985, 175-182.

--Similar material presented at Institute of Canadian Psychological Association Section on Women and Psychology, Calgary, 1980, and as part of symposium at Ontario Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, February, 1983.

Caplan, Paula J.; Watters, Jessie; White, Georgina; Parry, Ruth; & Bates, Robert. Toronto multi-agency child abuse research project: The abused and the abuser. Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 8, 1984, 343-351.

Caplan, Paula J. The myth of women's masochism. American Psychologist, 39(2), 1984, 130-139.

Caplan, Paula J., & Newman, Frances. Juvenile female prostitution as gender-consistent response to early deprivation, International Journal of Women's Studies, 5, 1982, 128-137.
--Also presented to Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, 1980, and University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry Research Day, September, 1981.

Caplan, Paula J.; Awad, George; Wilks, Corinne; & White Georgina. Sex differences in a delinquent clinic population. British Journal of Criminology, 20, 1980, 311-328.

Caplan, Paula J. Erikson's concept of inner space: A data-based re-evaluation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 49, 1979, 100-108.

Caplan, Paula J. Sex, age, behavior, and subject as determinants of report of learning problems. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 10, 1977, 314-316.

Caplan, Paula J., & Kinsbourne, Marcel. Baby drops the rattle: Asymmetry of duration of grasp by infants. Child Development, 47, 1976, 532-534.

Caplan, Paula J. Sex differences in antisocial behavior: Does research methodology produce or abolish them? Human Development, 18, 1975, 444-460.

Caplan, Paula J., & Kinsbourne, Marcel. Sex differences in response to school failure. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7, 1974, 232-235.

Kinsbourne, Marcel, & Caplan, Paula J. Discussion of the life-span approach to development. Gerontologist, 13, 1973, 509-510.

Caplan, Paula J. The role of classroom conduct in the promotion and retention of elementary school children. Journal of Experimental Education, Spring, 1973.

Papers (Non-refereed Journals)
Caplan, Paula J., & Caplan, Emily J. (1996). The pornography debate: Another view.
Independent Thinking Review 2(1), 13-14.

Caplan, Paula J. (1995). OPINION: A rising tide that threatens to swamp common sense. Knight- Ridder Financial News Service.

Caplan, Paula J. (1993). Don’t blame mother: Scapegoating and myths often keep natural allies
apart. Ms. September/October, p. 96.

Caplan, Paula J. What's happening these days with the DSM? Psychology of Women, 17(3), Summer, 1990, 5-6.
-- Reprinted with modifications in Feminism and Psychology, 1, 1991, 317-319.

Caplan, Paula J. The origins of women and mental health in Canada: Strategies for change. Feminist Therapy Institute, Inc., Interchange, 7(2), Summer, 1989.

Caplan, Paula J. More than Mother’s Day: What real honor means. Reconstructionist 4, January-
February, 1989, 25-27,34.

Caplan, Paula J. Confusing terms and false dichotomies: A Plea for logical thinking about learning disability. Orbit, 19(4), December, 1988, 14-15.

Caplan, Paula J. The path of the female hero. READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, 2(4), December, 1987, 16-19.

Caplan, Paula J. Victims labelled "self-defeating" by American Psychiatric Association. Vis-a-Vis: A National Newsletter on Family Violence, Winter, 1987, Volume 5, No. 1, 9.

Caplan, Paula J. The myth of women's masochism. Barnard College Women's Center, Barnard Occasional Paper on Women's Issues, II(1), Fall, 1986, 34-58.

MacPherson, Gael M.; Tobin, Patricia G.; & Caplan, Paula J. Unpalatable truths or unexplored potentials? Orbit, 17(3), October, 1986, 14-15.

Caplan, Paula J.; MacPherson, Gael M.; & Tobin, Patricia. Should female and male brains be differently instructed? Orbit, 17(2), April, 1986, 16-17.

Caplan, Paula J. Do sex differences in spatial abilities exist? Equal Play, Spring/Fall, 1984, 15-16.

Caplan, Paula J., & White, Georgina. Current themes in Canadian feminist psychology. Resources for Feminist Research, XI(3), 1982, 295-306.

Caplan, Paula J. Introduction to Discussion Forum on "Barriers between women: Five viewpoints". Resources for Feminist Research, November, 1980, IX(2), 8-9.

Caplan, Paula J. Barriers between women. Status of Women News, June 1980, 14-16.

Caplan, Paula J. Problems in the psychological study of sex differences. Canadian Newsletter of Research on Women, (now Resources for Feminist Research, VII(2)), July, 1978, 14-15.

Caplan, Paula J. Helping parents help their children deal with school problems. Bulletin of the Orton Society, 26, 1976, 103-123.

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