Association for Women in Psychology Committee on Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
(creators of the material on this section of the AWP website)
Alisha Ali PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University. Dr. Ali conducts research on the effects of poverty, violence, and discrimination on women’s well-being. She is currently conducting an investigation funded by the Allstate Foundation and the American Psychological Foundation on the impact of an economic empowerment program for women who have experienced domestic violence. She is co-editor, along with Dana Crowley Jack, of the book Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press.
Dr. Julie Ancis is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services at Georgia State University. She has published and presented in the area of multicultural competence, race and gender,university climate, and women’s legal experiences. She is the author of several books including The Complete Women’s Psychotherapy Treatment Planner (Wiley) and Culturally Responsive Interventions: Innovative Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations (Taylor and Francis). Her professional activities include serving on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Counseling and Development and other counseling and psychology journals, being Legal and Legislative Representative of the Georgia Psychological Association’s Division F, and serving on the committee for the development of the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women. She is currently writing a book on women’s legal experiences in the area of divorce and custody disputes.
Dana Becker teaches at the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She has written Through the Looking Glass: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder (Westview 1997) and The Myth of Empowerment: Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America (NYU Press 2005), and is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press tentatively entitled The Great Stress Deception: Social Uses of Stress in American Life. She has received research awards from the Association for Women in Psychology and the American Psychological Association.
Heather E. Bullock is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on social psychological dimensions of poverty and economic (in)justice, including discrimination against low-income women and the beliefs that predict support for welfare and anti-poverty policy. From 2007-2009, she served as the chair of the American Psychological Association's Committee on Socioeconomic Status.
Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist, formerly Full Professor of Applied Psychology and Lecturer in Women’s Studies, as well as Head of the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education and Heads of the School Psychology and Community Psychology Programs, at the University of Toronto. Most recently, she has been a Research Associate in the DuBois Institute at Harvard University. She is author of They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal, and she edited Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis. Her play, CALL ME CRAZY, is a comedy-drama about psychiatric diagnosis that won second place in the William and Arlene Lewis National Playwriting Contest for Women and has been performed in New York and elsewhere.
Amy Cavanaugh, M.A., is a fifth-year doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at Western Michigan University & Psychology intern at the Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Master's in Counseling from Ball State University. She loves to work with college students and is interested in working with body image concerns, sexual assault and interpersonal violence survivors. She has a strong commitment to and passion for social justice. Research interests include domestic violence, sexual assault, vicarious traumatization, body image, and sizeism.
Joan C. Chrisler, Ph.D. is Class of 1943 Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College, where she teaches courses on the psychology of women and health psychology. She has published extensively on the psychology of women and gender, and is especially known for her work on women’s health, menstruation, weight, and body image. Her most recent books are Women over 50: Psychological Perspectives (2007, Springer), Lectures on the Psychology of Women (4th ed., 2008, McGraw-Hill), and the two-volume Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology (2010, Springer).
Emily Cohen received her BA in psychology from Connecticut College and her MA in developmental psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University. She is currently a research coordinator at the Columbia University Medical Center.
Julie Meredith Davis earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Western Michigan University (WMU) in 2009. She currently holds a position as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and as an adjunct faculty member at WMU. She is actively engaged in research, advocacy and social justice work. Her specific areas of interest include minority sexual orientation, women’s issues, and mental health parity.
Kara Massie is a third-year Ph.D student in the clinical psychology program at Suffolk University in Boston. Her research is focused on gender issues, sexual behavior, and individual differences.
Dr. Kate Richmond is an assistant professor of psychology at Muhlenberg College, where she has an active research program in the areas of multicultural and cross-cultural psychology, feminism, and trauma. In addition to teaching, she currently maintains a private practice, where she specializes in the treatment of trauma and issues related to gender.
Alexandra Rutherford, PhD, CPsych, is an associate professor of psychology at York University in Toronto. Her primary research areas are the construction of gender in psychology and the relationship between psychology and feminism. She is a fellow of the Society for the Psychology of Women and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and directs the project /Psychology's Feminist Voices/ (see www.feministvoices.com).
Kate Sheese holds a BA in Individualized Studies with a focus on women’s health and is currently a graduate student in the History & Theory of Psychology at York University. Her master’s thesis explores issues of gender, community, and identity in transnational labour migration. Kate’s interests include feminist and critical psychologies, sexual and reproductive health/rights, participatory action research, and fine cheeses.
Aleta Storch graduated from Lewis and Clark College in 2009 with a B.A. in Psychology. She is currently on the planning committee, and is the film festival coordinator for the 2010 Association for Women in Psychology Conference. Eventually she plans on pursuing whole-foods nutritional psychology.
Leonore Tiefer, PhD, Clinical Assoc. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine. Leonore is a long time feminist sexologist, author of Sex is Not a Natural Act and other essays (2nd edition, 2004), and founder of the grassroots New View Campaign on Women's Sexual Problems, http://newviewcampaign.org
Shirley V. Truong is a doctoral candidate in social psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on issues related to poverty and race, class, and gender-based discrimination. Currently, she is studying homeless families' experiences with social services and service providers, and barriers to safe, stable housing.
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