In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplan
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Paula Caplan, a prolific writer, playwright, and social activist, who for decades was one of the most prominent critics of psychiatry and its diagnoses, died on Wednesday from cancer. She was 74.
In 1996, Paula Caplan published a withering critique of the creation of DSM IV,
They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal. She had been a consultant to the DSM IV task force in the earlier stages of its work, and with this insider’s experience informing the book, she described a process for defining “normalcy” by the American Psychiatric Association that lacked scientific grounding and was, in many ways, an arbitrary drawing of boundary lines between the normal and abnormal. Her book, together with
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Apr 8, 2021
A third person involved in the death of a Chillicothe woman at Hocking Hills State Park in 2019 has been sentenced. Court documents released Wednesday show Miranda Spencer was given a suspended 90-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to obstructing official business.
Spencer was with Jordan Buckley and Jaden Churchheus when they pushed a log from a cliff above Old Man s Cave and fatally struck Victoria Schafer.
Buckley and Churchheus pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and were sentenced to three-years at juvenile corrections.
Apr 8, 2021
A third person involved in the death of a Chillicothe woman at Hocking Hills State Park in 2019 has been sentenced. Court documents released Wednesday show Miranda Spencer was given a suspended 90-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to obstructing official business.
Spencer was with Jordan Buckley and Jaden Churchheus when they pushed a log from a cliff above Old Man s Cave and fatally struck Victoria Schafer.
Buckley and Churchheus pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and were sentenced to three-years at juvenile corrections.