Memorializes Paula J. Caplan (1947-2021). Caplan was a leading scholar in feminist psychology, and an early contributor to the feminist critique and re-visioning of psychology. In her now-classic books ; ; and she took particular aim at psychoanalytic theories that women are inherently masochistic and unable to form loving bonds with their mothers and female friends. She was concerned throughout her career with the ways that medicalized views of people's suffering framed them as mentally ill without considering how society's structures and social behaviors (including sex and race discrimination) forced people into difficult situations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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