Paula J. Caplan, Author at Women's eNews

Paula J. Caplan

Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist, playwright, and activist/advocate; Associate at the DuBois Institute, Harvard University; and author of 11 books, including When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, which won three national awards for nonfiction.

Military Recruitment Needs Sex Assault Warning

By Paula J. Caplan ● Politics ● December 11, 2014

How many women would take the job if they knew they faced a 1-in-3 chance of sexual assault and a high probability of retaliation for reporting it? As a recent Pentagon survey confirms, changes in our system of military justice are long overdue.

Female Veterans Carry Special War Baggage

By Paula J. Caplan ● Arts & Culture ● November 10, 2011

Female veterans’ homecoming can be complicated by their experience of the hyper-masculinity of the military, Paula J. Caplan writes in this excerpt from “When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans.”

This Veterans Day, Help a Woman Come Home

By Paula J. Caplan ● Politics ● November 5, 2010

Psychologist Paula J. Caplan has written a play about a character who might say something about all female vets. She has complicated emotions and thinks she’s going crazy. But she’s not. She just needs attention to her painful secrets.

Psychiatric Labels Plague Women’s Mental Health

By Paula J. Caplan ● Health & Science ● May 16, 2006

During mental-health awareness month Paula J. Caplan argues women are over-diagnosed with psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. Many problems, she writes, are not inside women’s heads. They are in external conditions crying out for remedy.

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Paula J.'s Latest Articles

Military Recruitment Needs Sex Assault Warning

Female Veterans Carry Special War Baggage

This Veterans Day, Help a Woman Come Home

Psychiatric Labels Plague Women’s Mental Health