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CURRICULUM VITAE

JEROME C. WAKEFIELD, PhD, DSW

New York University

Silver School of Social Work

Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

1 Washington Square N.

New York, NY 10003

Phone: 212-998-5934; 212-932-9705

Email: [email protected]

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Validity of psychiatric diagnosis; Depression and

grief; Psychiatric epidemiology; Conceptual foundations of the mental health professions

(including psychiatry, psychology, social work, and psychoanalysis); Sexual disorders;

Conceptual issues in understanding addiction; Philosophy of medicine; Freud studies;

Integrative clinical theory; Philosophy of psychopathology.

CURRENT AND RECENT POSITIONS

Faculty profile: http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/fac-prof-jwakefield.htm

2016-2017 Chair, Dean Search Committee, Silver School of Social Work: successful

search leading to appointment of Neil Guterman as Dean

2007-2008 Chair, Dean Search Committee, Silver School of Social Work: successful

search leading to appointment of Lynn Videka as Dean

(1) University Professor, New York University (September 2003-present)

(2) Professor, Silver School of Social Work, New York University (July 2003-present)

(3) Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry,

Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine (September 2007-present)

(4) Research faculty, InSPIRES (Institute for Social and Psychiatric Initiatives: Research,

Education, Service), Bellevue Hospital/NYU Psychiatry Department (current)

(5) Associate Faculty, NYU Center for Bioethics (current)

(6) Associated Faculty in the College of Global Public Health (current)

(7) Affiliated Faculty, NYU Center for Ancient Studies (current)

(8) Honorary Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, NYU Medical Center.

(current)

http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/fac-prof-jwakefield.htm

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(9) Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Biometrics Unit, Division of Clinical

Phenomenology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

(1998-2013)

(10) Director, NYU Clinical Theory in Paris Program. (2009-2012)

SERVICE - EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS

(1) Advisory Board, NYU Center for Bioethics

(2) Advisory Board, NYU Humanities Initiative

(3) Provost’s Undergraduate Academic Advisory Committee

(4) Advisory Board, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research

(5) Editorial Board, Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (Pub. In Italian:

Psicoterapia e scienze umane) (2002-present)

(6) Editorial Board, Evolutionary Psychology. (2006-present)

(7) Editorial Board, Clinical Social Work Journal (current)

(8) Inaugural Editorial Board, Evolutionary Psychological Science. (current)

(9) National Advisory Board, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration

(1994-Current)

(10) Founding Fellow, Council for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health

(11) Elected Member, Rapaport-Klein Study Group in Ego Psychology

(12) Fellow, College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis

(13) International Honorary Editorial Advisory Board, Mens Sana Monographs, India.

(2009-present)

(14) International Advisory Board, International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry

(2007-present)

(15) WHO Conference Expert Group on the Public Health Implications of the Definition

of Mental Disorder, World Health Organization Conference on Public Health

Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification; Member

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PEER REVIEWER

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry; Frontiers in Psychiatry; American Journal of Psychiatry;

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry; Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice; Research

on Social Work Practice; Psychological Medicine; British Journal of Psychiatry; Journal

of Affective Disorders; BMC (British Medical Journal); Social Science and Medicine;

American Journal of Psychiatry; Archives of General Psychiatry; Canadian Journal of

Psychiatry; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Philosophy of Science; British Journal for

the Philosophy of Science; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; American Psychologist;

Psychological Review; Psychological Bulletin; Social Service Review; Social Psychiatry

and Psychiatric Epidemiology; Ancient Philosophy; Philosophy Psychiatry and

Psychology; Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry;

Psychoanalytic Psychology; Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review; Clinical Social

Work Journal; and Evolutionary Psychology.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, May 2001. Doctoral thesis (John

Searle, Chair): Do unconscious mental states exist?: Freud, Searle, and the

conceptual foundations of cognitive science.

NIMH Postdoctoral Research Traineeship in Mental Health Services Research, Institute

for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, 1990-93.

Research on mental health services.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Cognitive Studies, University of California at Berkeley,

fall 1987. Research on integration of cognitive science and psychoanalytic theory.

Faculty sponsor: John Searle.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown

University, 1984-85. History of concepts of sexual disorder.

D.S.W., School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, June 1984.

Doctoral thesis (Eileen Gambrill and William Runyan, Co-Chairs): Psychosexual

disorders: Studies in the role of psychotherapeutic ideology in diagnosis and

treatment.

M.A., Mathematics (Logic & Methodology of Science), University of California at

Berkeley, Dec. 1978. Thesis (Chair: John Kelley): Evolution of the theory of

proportions in ancient Greek mathematics.

M.S.W., Clinical Social Work, University of California at Berkeley, June 1974. (Field

Training: Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser-Permanente Hospital, Santa Clara,

California)

NIMH Predoctoral Research Traineeship, Human Development Program, Langley Porter

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Neuropsychiatric Institute, San Francisco Medical Center, 1974-76.

Cognitive Science Training Program (Sloan Foundation supported), University of

California, Berkeley.

B.A. Philosophy, psychology, mathematics. Queens College of C.U.N.Y., 1969. Honors

Program, cum laude.

COURSES TAUGHT AT NYU

Plato and Freud on Love and Sexuality (Undergraduate Honors Seminar)

Critical Analysis of Psychotherapy Theories (Masters)

Depression: Conceptual Issues and Clinical Perspectives (Masters)

International Perspectives on Depression, Mental Disorder, and Psychiatric Epidemiology

(Global Masters; taught at NYU Paris)

Sex and Death in Paris: International Perspectives on Depression, Bereavement, and

Sexual Paraphilias; Conceptual and Clinical Issues (Global Masters; taught at

NYU Paris)

Philosophy of Science and Knowledge Development (Doctoral)

Research in Social Work: Links to Theory and Practice (Doctoral)

Unconscious Mental States: Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Mind (Postdoctoral)

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University School of Social Work (various ranks

starting at Associate Professor, 1990-July 1, 2003). Courses: Advanced

Direct Practice I and II (masters; second year direct practice

concentration), Theory Development in Direct Social Work Practice

(doctoral; the “epistemology” course), Current Perspectives in Direct

Practice Theory (doctoral). Selected Committee Assignments: Chair,

Appointments and Promotions Committee; Chair, Workload Equity

Committee; Chair, Advanced Direct Practice Area; Chair, Advanced

Direct Practice Curriculum Committee; Chair, Doctoral Curriculum

Committee; Chair, Junior Faculty Mentoring Group; Chair, Doctoral

Qualifying Examination (Direct Practice) Committee; Member, Faculty

Search Committee; Member, Rutgers University Social Science Area

Committee.

Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1988-1990.

Courses: Comparative Personality Theories I & II (Doctoral level), Direct

Practice I & II (Masters).

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago School of Social Service

Administration, 1985-1988. Courses: Psychoanalytic Theory I and II,

Advanced Research Methods for Clinical Students, Socrates and the

Foundations of Psychotherapy, The Nature of Altruism, Interdisciplinary

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Workshop on Theory and Practice (doctoral seminar), Theories of

Interpretation (doctoral seminar in the Committee on Human

Development).

Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and Philosophy), University of

California at Berkeley, summer 1983 & 1984. Theories of Sexuality,

Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy.

Lecturer, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 1980-81.

Courses: Integrated one-year (three-quarter) course on Research and

Statistics for clinical practice students, including Critical Reasoning and

Philosophy of Science.

Lecturer (Associate Professor level), School of Social Work, San Diego State

University, 1978-79. Courses: Advanced Practice Seminar, Clinical

Research, Interviewing Skills, Group Work (Bachelors level), Field

Coordination (Masters and Bachelors levels), Clinical Case Conference.

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Queensland, Brisbane,

Australia, 1976-78. Courses: Philosophy of Social Work, Systems Theory,

Theories of Practice (Masters and Bachelors levels), Professional Ethics,

Field Supervision, Research Methods, Interviewing Skills Workshop,

Thesis Advising.

Teaching Assistant, School of Nursing, University of California Medical Center,

1975. Course: Psychosocial and Ethical Aspects of Nursing.

Teaching Assistant in Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, various

quarters, 1970-76, 1980-83. Courses: Philosophy of Science (Feyerabend),

Philosophy of Mind (Searle), Theories of Human Action (Davidson),

Foucault (Dreyfus), Logic (Craig), Logic (Chihara), Theory of Knowledge

(Feyerabend), Moral Reasoning (Scriven), Philosophical Theories

(Matson).

Teaching Assistant/Associate in Mathematics, University of California at

Berkeley, various quarters, 1970-74. Courses: Calculus for Physics and

Engineering, Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students, Calculus for Social

and Biological Science Majors, Foundations of Mathematics for

Secondary School Teachers.

Lecturer in Philosophy, C. W. Post College of Long Island University, 1968-69.

Courses: Introduction to Philosophy, Logic.

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AWARDS, KEYNOTES, HONORS

HONOR: Invited to present the Robert Spitzer Memorial Lecture and Grand Rounds at

Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute,

December 19, 2018.

KEYNOTE: Invited to give the keynote address on the nature of addiction at the annual

conference of the Romanell Center for Clinical Ethics and the Philosophy of Medicine at

State University of New York at Buffalo, July 2018.

AWARD: Best Faculty Book of the Year Award for 2014 from the American

Sociological Association, Section on Evolution, Biology, and Society, for All We Have to

Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders.

AWARD: Humanities Initiative Fellowship, New York University, 2010-2011.

AWARD: Best Faculty Book of the Year Award for 2010, from the American

Sociological Association, section on Evolution, Biology, and Society.

AWARD: Association of American Publishers Best Book Award 2007, Psychology

Category. “PSP” Award: The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the

Association of American Publishers named Loss of Sadness the outstanding book in

psychology for 2007.

AWARD: Named by THE WEEK magazine as “One of the four best op-ed columns in

U.S. newspapers of the week”: Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Sadness is not

a disorder. Philadelphia Inquirer (Op-ed). 12/09/07, pp. B1-B2.

KEYNOTE: “Taxonomizing DSM-5: Health, Psychological Justice, and Virtue as

Organizing Values of Psychiatry.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology,

Louisville KY, March 11, 2016.

INVITED TALK AT NIMH: Wakefield, J. C. "Conceptual and ethical issues in the

definition, classification, and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders" Invited presentation to

the NIMH Bioethics Division, Bethesda, Maryland. April 13, 2016.

ENDOWED LECTURE: “DSM-5 Changes in Child Diagnosis: Social, Policy, and

Forensic Implications.” Endowed Lecture: The Davis Lecture in Health Administration,

Center for Health Administration Studies, School of Social Service Administration,

University of Chicago, April 28, 2015.

ENDOWED LECTURE: Wakefield, J. C. “Is Psychiatry Misdiagnosing Normal Sadness

as Depressive Disorder?: The DSM-5 Debate Over the Bereavement Exclusion and What

the Latest Research Reveals.” Endowed Lecture: Rhoda Sarnat Lecture, 2015. School of

Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, October 22, 2015.

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KEYNOTE: “Grief and Pathology.” At a conference on Bioethics and the Philosophy of

Medicine, SUNY Buffalo Philosophy Dept., Aug. 1, 2015.

KEYNOTE: “The Biostatistical Theory Versus the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis, Part

2.” At a conference on Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine, SUNY Buffalo

Philosophy Dept., July 31, 2015.

Loss of Sadness was named one of seven best books of the past decade in the sociology

of mental health in Contemporary Sociology, 2013. (Scheid, Theresa L. A Decade of

Critique: Notable Books in the Sociology of Mental Health and Illness. Contemporary

Sociology: A Journal of Reviews March 2013 vol. 42 no. 2 177-183)

BOOKS AND TRANSLATIONS

Wakefield, J. C. (2018). Freud and philosophy of mind, volume 1: Reconstructing the

argument for unconscious mental states. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Horwitz, A, V., Wakefield, J. C., & Huang, S. (Trans.). (2018). Wo de bei shang bu shi

bing. Xin bei shi: Zuo an wen hua chu ban: Yuan zu wen hua fa xing. [“Sorrow is

not sickness,” Chinese translation of Loss of Sadness]

Wakefield, J. C., & Demazeux, S. (Eds.). (2016), Sadness or depression?: International

perspectives on the depression epidemic and its meaning. Netherlands: Springer

Science. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Series.

Horwitz, A. V. & Wakefield, J. C. (2015) La perdita della tristezza: Come la psichiatria

ha trasformato la tristezza in depressione. (a cura di Fiori Nastro, P. (Ed. &

intro.), Pappagallo, E. (Ed. & intro.), Polese, D. (Ed. & intro.); Sampaolo, M.

(Trans.); & Premessa di Maj, M). Rome: L’Asino D’oro. (Italian translation of

The Loss of Sadness, with a new foreword, introduction, and afterword.)

Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2012). All we have to fear: Psychiatry’s

transformation of natural anxieties into mental disorders. New York: Oxford

University Press.

Horwitz, A. V., Wakefield, J. C., & Ito, K. (Trans.). (2011). Sore wa utsu dewa nai:

Donna kanashimi mo utsu ni sareteshimau riyu. Hankyukomyunikeshonzu.

[Japanese translation of Loss of Sadness]

Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2010). Den förlorade sorgsenheten: hur psykiatrin

förvandlade normal sorg till en depressiv störning. Ludvika: Dualis. (Swedish

translation of The Loss of Sadness)

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Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2010). A tristeza perdida: Como a psiquiatria

tranformou a depressao em moda. Summus. (Portuguese translation of The Loss

of Sadness)

Horwitz, A. V., Wakefield, J. C., & Parot, F. (Trans.). (2010). Tristesse ou depression?

Comment la psychiatrie a medicalise nos tristesses. Wavre (Belgique): Edition

Mardaga. (French translation of The Loss of Sadness)

Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2007) The loss of sadness: How psychiatry

transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder. New York: Oxford

University Press.

Wakefield, J. C. (2001). Do unconscious mental states exist?: Freud, Searle, and the

conceptual foundations of cognitive science. Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations

& Theses Global. (304684184). Retrieved from

http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview

/304684184?accountid=12768.

BOOKS UNDER CONTRACT

Wakefield, J. C. (under contract). The day the horse fell down: Rethinking Freud's

argument for the Oedipus complex in the case of little Hans. New York, NY: Routledge.

Wakefield, J. C. (under contract). Bed time: Oedipal power/knowledge and the regulation

of mother-son intimacy in Freud's case of little Hans. New York, NY: Routledge.

Wakefield, J. C. (under contract). Freud and the philosophy of mind, volume 2:

Reconstructing Freud’s argument against unconscious instincts, affects, and emotions.

Palgrave-Macmillan.

Wakefield, J. C. (under contract). Freud and philosophy of mind, volume 3: The great

Freud-James debate reconstructed. Palgrave-Macmillan.

Wakefield, J. C. (under contract) Robert Spitzer and the definition of mental disorder.

Oxford.

Wakefield, J. C. (under contract). The Medicalization of Virtue. Oxford.

EDITED JOURNALS

Guest Editor. Special “In Review” section on “Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Concept of

Mental Disorder.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, November and December, 2013.

Guest Editor. Special Issue on “DSM-5: Implications for Clinical Social Work Practice.”

Clinical Social Work Journal, June 2013.

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GLOBAL REACH OF SCHOLARSHIP

Featured expert (5 interview segments) in Dépression, une épidémie mondiale

(Depression: A worldwide epidemic), 2015, a film by Michele Dominici (in French).

Shown on French and German television, and being prepared for U.S. release.

Four conferences held in honor of aspects of my work at the University of Paris.

Newspaper op-eds have appeared internationally.

Scholarly work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Turkish, Japanese,

Swedish, Portuguese, and Chinese.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

275. Wakefield, J. C. (2019). The harmful dysfunction analysis of addiction: Normal

brains and abnormal states of mind. In H. Pickard & S. H. Ahmed (Eds.), The

Routledge handbook of philosophy and science of addiction (pp. 90-101). New

York: Routledge.

274. Wakefield, J. C. (2017). Can the harmful dysfunction analysis explain why addiction

is a medical disorder?: Reply to Marc Lewis. (Letter to the Editor). Neuroethics,

10(2), 313-317.

273. Wakefield, J. C. (2017). Why addiction is a medical disorder: Commentary on

Berridge and Pickard. Brains Blog.

http://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/03/30/neuroethics-symposium-special-issue-

on-the-biology-of-desire-by-marc-lewis.aspx

272. Wakefield, J. C. (2017) The medicalization of society: Lecture and question session.

Grand Rapids: Richard & Helen DeVos Foundation.

Available at: https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/22BEB039-C05E-34A5-

13EB6F73BBBC1CBE/24_-_onlineonly_-

_medicalization_of_society_9.26.2016_-_tagged_ada.pdf

271. Wakefield, J. C., Lorenzo-Luaces, L., & Lee, J. J. (2017). Taking people as they are:

Evolutionary psychopathology, uncomplicated depression, and the distinction

between normal and disordered sadness. In T. K. Shackleford & V. Zeigler-Hill

(Eds.), The evolution of psychopathology (pp. 37-72). New York: Springer.

270. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2017). Severity of complicated versus

uncomplicated subthreshold depression: New evidence on the “Monotonicity

Thesis” from the National Comorbidity Survey. Journal of Affective Disorders,

212, 101-109.

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269. Wakefield, J. C. (2017). Addiction and the concept of disorder, Part 2: Is every

mental disorder a brain disorder? Neuroethics, 10(1), 55-67. (Reprinted at


on-the-biology-of-desire-by-marc-lewis.aspx.)

268. Wakefield, J. C. (2017). Addiction and the concept of disorder, Part 1: Why

addiction is a medical disorder. Neuroethics, 10(1), 39-53. (Reprinted at


on-the-biology-of-desire-by-marc-lewis.aspx.)

267. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2017). The measurement of mental disorder. In

T. Scheid and T. Brown (eds.), A handbook for the study of mental health: Social

contexts, theories, and systems, third edition (pp. 20-44) New York: Cambridge

University Press.

266. Wakefield, J. C. (2017) Concept representation in the child: What did Little Hans

mean by 'widdler'? Psychoanalytic Psychology, 34(3), 352-360.

265. Horwitz, A. V., Wakefield, J. C., & Lorenzo-Luaces, L. (2017). History of

depression. In R. J. DeRubeis & D. R. Strunk (Eds.), Oxford handbook of mood

disorders (pp. 11-23). New York: Oxford Press.

264. Wakefield, J. C., Horwitz, A. V., & Lorenzo-Luaces, L. (2017). Uncomplicated

depression as normal sadness: Rethinking the boundary between normal and

disordered depression. In R. J. DeRubeis & D. R. Strunk (Eds.), Oxford handbook

of mood disorders (pp. 83-94). New York: Oxford University Press.

263. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2017). Symptom quality versus quantity in

judging prognosis: Using NESARC predictive validators to locate uncomplicated

major depression on the number-of-symptoms severity continuum. Journal of

Affective Disorders, 208, 325-329.

262. Wakefield, J. C. (2017). Mental disorders as genuine medical conditions. In T.

Schramme & S. Edwards (Eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine,

Volume 1 (pp. 65-82). Dordrecht: Springer.

261. Nagel, T., Erreich, A., Kessler, R. J., Rand, B., Wakefield, J. C. (2016). An

exchange with Thomas Nagel: The mind-body problem and psychoanalysis.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 64(2), 389-403.

260. Wakefield, J. C. (2016). Un bilancio: commenti sullo stato attuale della psicoanalisi

(Taking stock: Comments on the current status of psychoanalysis). Psicoterapia e

scienze umane, 50(3), 625-631. (in Italian).

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259. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2016). Feelings of worthlessness during a single

complicated major depressive episode predict post-remission suicide attempt.

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 133(4), 257-265.

258. Wakefield, J. C. (2016). Diagnostic issues and controversies in DSM-5: Return of

the false positives problem. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 12, 105-132.

257. Wakefield, J. C. (2016). Reply to Balon. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 133(2),

165-166.

256. Wakefield, J. C. (2016). Against utility. World Psychiatry, 15(1), 33-35.

255. Wakefield, J. C., & Horwitz, A. V. (2016). Psychiatry’s continuing expansion of

depressive disorder. In Wakefield, J. C., & Demazeux, S. (Eds.), Sadness or

depression?: International perspectives on the depression epidemic and its

meaning (pp.173-204). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Science. History,

Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Series.

254. Wakefield, J. C., & Demazeux, S. (2016). Depression: One and many. In Wakefield,

J. C., & Demazeux, S. (Eds.), Sadness or depression?: International perspectives

on the depression epidemic and its meaning (pp. 1-16). Dordrecht, Netherlands:

Springer Science, History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Series.

253. Wakefield, J. C. (2016). The concepts of biological function and dysfunction:

Toward a conceptual foundation for evolutionary psychopathology. In D. Buss

(Ed.), Handbook of evolutionary psychology, second edition (vol. 2)(pp. 988-

1006). New York: Oxford Press.

252. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). The editor’s dilemma: How DSM politics are turning

psychiatry into a pseudoscience. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 132(6), 425-

426.

251. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2015). Addiction, the concept of disorder, and

pathways to harm: Comment on Levy. In Pickard, H., Ahmed, S. H., & Foddy, B.

(Eds.), Alternative Models of Addiction (pp. 87-88). Lausanne: Frontiers Media.

doi: 10.3389/978-2-88919-713-2 (ebook)

250. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2015). How many people have alcohol use

disorders?: Using the harmful dysfunction analysis to reconcile prevalence

estimates in two community surveys. In Pickard, H., Ahmed, S. H., & Foddy, B.

(Eds.), Alternative Models of Addiction (pp. 89-110). Lausanne: Frontiers Media.

doi: 10.3389/978-2-88919-713-2 (ebook)

249. Wakefield, J. C., & Horwitz, A. V. (2015). Postfazione all’edizione italiana:

Continua a espandersi l’area del disturbo depressive in psichiatria: gli sviluppir

ecenti. (Afterword to the Italian edition of The Loss of Sadness: Psychiatry’s

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continuing expansion of depressive disorder: recent developments). In Horwitz,

A. V., & Wakefield, J. C., La perdita della tristezza: Come la psichiatria ha

trasformato il normale dolore in un disturbo depressive (pp. 387-435). Rome:

L’Asino D’oro Edizione.

248. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). DSM-5 substance use disorder: How conceptual missteps

weakened the foundations of the addictive disorders field. Acta Psychiatrica

Scandinavica,132(5), 327-34.

247. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). Social construction, biological design, and mental disorder

(Recent French Thought on Culture, Subjectivity, and Psychopathology).

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 21(4), 349-355.

246. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2015). Corrigendum: How many people have

alcohol use disorders?: Using the harmful dysfunction analysis to reconcile

prevalence estimates in two community surveys. In Pickard, H., Ahmed, S. H., &

Foddy, B. (Eds.), Alternative Models of Addiction (pp. 111-113). Lausanne:

Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88919-713-2 (ebook)

245. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). Diagnosing DSM-IV – part I: DSM-IV and the concept of

disorder. In G. Davey (Ed.), Psychopathology & abnormal psychology, vol. 1:

Conceptual issues, classification, & assessment (pp. 129-156) New York: Sage.

244. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). Die Psychiatrisierung der Wechselfalle des Lebens: Die

“DSM-Pharma-Connection”. In M. Borch-Jacobsen (Ed.) & H. Reuter (Trans.),

Big Pharma: Wie profitgierige Unternehmen unsere Gesundheit aufs Spiel Setzen.

(pp. 246-263) (In German)

243. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). Psychological justice: DSM-5, false positive diagnosis,

and fair equality of opportunity. Public Affairs Quarterly, 29(1), 32-75.

242. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). Psychiatriser la detresse normale: la “DSM-Pharma

Connection.” In M. Borch-Jacobson (Ed.) La vérité sur les médicament (pp. 265-

288). Montreal: Gallimard EDITO. (In French, Canadian publication)

241. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2015). The harmful dysfunction model of

alcohol use disorder: revised criteria to improve the validity of diagnosis and

prevalence estimates. Addiction, 110(6), 931-942.

240. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). DSM-5, psychiatric epidemiology, and the false positives

problem. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Science, 24(3), 188-196.

239. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). The loss of grief: Science and pseudoscience in the debate

over DSM-5’s elimination of the bereavement exclusion. In S. Demazeaux & P.

Singy (Eds.), The DSM-5 in perspective: Philosophical reflections on the

psychiatric bible (pp. 157-178). New York: Springer.

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238. Wakefield, J. C. (2015). Symptom data reanalysis disconfirms Parker et al.'s claim

that latent class analysis identifies melancholic depression. Acta Psychiatrica

Scandinavica, 132, 306-320.

237. Wakefield, J. C. (2014). DSM-5 Changes and controversies: The headline news, part

3. Intersections in Practice 2014 (pp. 20-23). Washington, DC: National

Association of Social Workers.







234. Wakefield, J. C. (2014). The biostatistical theory versus the harmful dysfunction

analysis, part 1: Is part-dysfunction sufficient for medical disorder? Journal of

Medicine and Philosophy, 39(6), 648-682.

233. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2014). Corrigendum: How many people have

alcohol use disorders?: Using the harmful dysfunction analysis to reconcile

prevalence estimates in two community surveys. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 5(144),

doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00144.

232. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2014). Uncomplicated depression is normal, not

depressive disorder: Further evidence from the NESARC. World Psychiatry,

13(3), 317-319

231. Wakefield, J. C. (2014). Psychological justice: Distributive justice and psychiatric

treatment of the non-disordered. In Reisch, M. Handbook of Social Justice (pp.

353-384). New York: Routledge.

230. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2014). Predictive validation of single-episode

uncomplicated depression as a benign subtype of unipolar major depression. Acta

Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 129, 445-457.


3. Private Practice: NASW Specialty Practice Sections Newsletter, summer/spring

2014, 2-6.

228. Wakefield, J. C. (2014). Wittgenstein’s nightmare: why the RDoC grid needs a

conceptual dimension. World Psychiatry, 13(1), 38-40.

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227. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2014). How many people have alcohol use

disorders?: Using the harmful dysfunction analysis to reconcile prevalence

estimates in two community surveys. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 5(10),

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00010.

226. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2014). Uncomplicated depression, suicide

attempt, and the DSM-5 bereavement-exclusion debate: An empirical evaluation.

Research on Social Work Practice, 24(1), 37-49.

225. First, M. B., & Wakefield, J. C. (2013). Diagnostic criteria as dysfunction indicators:

Bridging the chasm between the definition of mental disorder and diagnostic

criteria for specific disorders. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 58(12), 663-669.

224. Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. B. (2013). Diagnostic validity and the definition of

mental disorder: A program for conceptually advancing psychiatry. Canadian

Journal of Psychiatry, 58(12), 653-655.


2. Private Practice: NASW Specialty Practice Sections Newsletter, fall 2013, 2-6.


1. Private Practice: NASW Specialty Practice Sections Newsletter, summer 2013,

2-6.

221. Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. B. (2013). The importance and limits of harm in

identifying mental disorder. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 58(11), 618-621.

220. Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. B. (2013). Clarifying the boundary between normality

and disorder: A fundamental conceptual challenge for psychiatry. Canadian

Journal of Psychiatry, 58(11), 603-605.

219. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2013). Study data support the validity of the

major depression bereavement exclusion. (letter). Journal of Clinical Psychiatry,

74(7), 741.

218. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). Psychiatriser la detresse normale: la “DSM-Pharma

Connection” (The psychiatry of normal distress: The DSM-pharm connection). In

Mikkel Borch-Jacobson (Ed.) Big Pharma (pp. 265-288). Paris: Les Arènes. (In

French)

217. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). DSM-5 grief scorecard: Assessment and outcomes of

proposals to pathologize grief. World Psychiatry, 12(2), 171-173.

216. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). Addiction, the concept of disorder, and pathways to harm:

Comment on Levy. Frontiers in Addictive Disorders & Behavioral Dyscontrol,

4(34). doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00034.

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215. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). The DSM-5 debate over the bereavement exclusion:

Psychiatric diagnosis and the future of empirically supported practice. Clinical

Psychology Review, 33, 825-845.

214. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). DSM-5 and clinical social work: Mental disorder and

psychological justice as goals of clinical intervention. Clinical Social Work

Journal, 41(2), 131-138.

213. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). DSM-5: An overview of changes and controversies.

Clinical Social Work Journal, 41(2), 139-154.

212. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). DSM-5 and the general definition of personality disorder.

Clinical Social Work Journal, 41(2), 168-183.

211. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). Uncomplicated depression: New evidence for the validity

of extending the bereavement exclusion to other stressors. Acta Psychiatrica


210. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). After removal from DSM-5, why clinicians should

remember the bereavement exclusion. Psychiatry Weekly, 8(4). February 18,

2013.

209. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2013). When does depression become a

disorder? Using recurrence rates to evaluate the validity of proposed changes in

major depression diagnostic thresholds. World Psychiatry, 12, 44-52.

208. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2013). Can the DSM's major depression

bereavement exclusion be validly extended to other stressors?: Evidence from the

NCS. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 128, 294-305.

207. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). Is complicated/prolonged grief a disorder? Why the

proposal to add “complicated grief disorder” to the DSM-5 is conceptually and

empirically unsound. In Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut, & Jan van den Bout

(Eds.), Complicated grief: Scientific foundations for health care professionals

(pp. 99-114). New York: Routledge.

206. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2013). Normal vs. disordered bereavement-

related depression: are the differences real or tautological? Acta Psychiatrica


205. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2012). Beyond reactive versus endogenous:

Should uncomplicated stress-triggered depression be excluded from major

depression diagnosis?: A review of the evidence. Minerva Psichiatrica (Italy), 53,

251-276.

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204. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Der Begriff der psychischen Storung: An der Grenze

zwischen biologischen Tatsachen und gesellschaftlichen Werten. (The concept of

mental disorder). In T. Schramme (Ed.), Krankheitstheorie (Theories of Disease)

(pp. 239-262). Berlin, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag.

203. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Le concept de trouble mental. A la frontière entre faits

biologiques et valeurs sociales. In Giroux, E., & Lemoine, M. (eds.), Philosophie

de la Medecine: Santie, Maladie Pathologie (pp. 127-176). Paris: J. Vrin. (in

French)

202. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Altruism and human nature: Constructing a theoretical

foundation for the social work profession. Jiang hai xue kan (Jianghai Academic

Journal), 4, 118-124. (published in Chinese; translated by Tong Wu)

201. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Our new age of anxiety. On Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/02/our_new_era_of_anxiety/singleton/

200. Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. B. (2012). Fallacious reasoning in the argument to

eliminate the major depression bereavement exclusion in DSM-5. World

Psychiatry, 11, 204-205.

199. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Should prolonged grief be reclassified as a mental disorder

in DSM-5?: Reconsidering the empirical and conceptual arguments for proposed

grief disorders. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200, 499-511.

198. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2012). Recurrence of bereavement-related

depression: Evidence for the validity of the DSM-IV bereavement exclusion from

the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study. Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease, 200, 480-485.

197. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). The DSM-5’s proposed new categories of sexual disorder:

The problem of false positives in sexual diagnosis. Clinical Social Work Journal,

40, 213-223.

196. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). DSM-5: Proposed changes to depressive disorders. Current

Medical Research & Opinion, 28, 1-9.

195. Sartorius, N., Levav, I., Wakefield, J. C., & Weiss, M. G. (2012). Public Health and

the classification of mental disorders: Introduction. In S. Saxena, P. Esparza, D.

A. Regier, B. Saraceno, & N. Sartorius, Public health aspects of diagnosis and

classification of mental and behavioral disorders: Refining the research agenda

for DSM-5 and ICD-11. Geneva: World Health Organization.

194. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Are you as smart as a 4th grader?: Why the prototype-

similarity approach to diagnosis is a step backward for a scientific psychiatry.

World Psychiatry, 11, 27-28.

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193. Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. B. (2012). Validity of the bereavement exclusion to

major depression: Does the evidence support the proposed elimination of the

exclusion in DSM-5? World Psychiatry, 11, 3-11.

192. Frances, A., & Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Don’t confuse grief with depression.

Huffington Post, January 26, 2012. (This was an interview that was extensively

directly quoted. My name is not on the masthead because it was Allen Frances’s

column.)

191. Phillips, J., Frances, A., Cerullo, M. A., Chardavoyne, J., Decker, H. S., First, M. B.,

Ghaemi, N., Greenberg, G., Hinderliter, A. C., Kinghorn, W. A., LoBello, S. G.,

Martin, E. B., Mishara, A. L., Paris, J., Pierre, J. M., Pies, R. W., Pincus, H. A.,

Porter, D., Pouncey, C., Schwartz, M. A., Szasz, T., Wakefield, J. C., Waterman,

G. S., Whooley, O., & Zachar, P. (2012). The six most essential questions in

psychiatric diagnosis: A pluralogue part 4: General conclusion. Philosophy,

Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: PEHM, 7(14). http://www.peh-

med.com/content/7/1/14 (accessed December 26, 2014).






psychiatric diagnosis: A pluralogue part 3: Issues of utility and alternative

approaches in psychiatric diagnosis. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in

Medicine: PEHM, 7(9). http://www.peh-med.com/content/7/1/9 (accessed

December 26, 2014).






psychiatric diagnosis: A pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism

in psychiatric diagnosis. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: PEHM,

7(8). http://www.peh-med.com/content/7/1/8 (accessed December 26, 2014).






psychiatric diagnosis: A pluralogue part 1: Conceptual and definitional issues in

psychiatric diagnosis. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: PEHM,

7(3). http://www.peh-med.com/content/7/1/3 (accessed December 26, 2014).

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187. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Commentary: How we choose among the five umpires of

epistemology. In: Phillips et al., The six most essential questions in psychiatric

diagnosis: A pluralogue part 1: Conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric

diagnosis. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 7(3), 9-10.

http://www.peh-med.com/content/7/1/3 (accessed December 26, 2014).

186. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). An adequate concept of mental disorder. In: Phillips et al.,

The Six Most Essential Questions in Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Pluralogue. Part 1:

Conceptual and Definitional Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis. Philosophy, Ethics,

and Humanities in Medicine, 7(3), 18-20. http://www.peh-med.com/content/7/1/3

(accessed December 26, 2014).

185. Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. B. (2012). Placing symptoms in context: The role of

contextual criteria in reducing false positives in DSM diagnosis. Comprehensive


184. Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Mapping melancholia: The continuing typological

challenge for major depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 138, 180-182.

183. Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. B. (2011). Treatment outcome for bereavement-

excluded depression: Results of the study by Corruble et al are not what they

seem. (Letter). Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 72, 1155.

182. Wakefield, J. C., Schmitz, M. F., & Baer, J. C. (2011). Relation between duration

and severity in bereavement-related depression. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica,

124(6), 487-494.

181. Wakefield, J. C. (2011). DSM-5 proposed diagnostic criteria for sexual paraphilias:

Tensions between diagnostic validity and forensic utility. International Journal of

Law and Psychiatry, 34, 195-209.

180. Wakefield, J. C., & Chiche, S. (2011). Jerome C. Wakefield: Classification des

troubles mentaux: Faut-il bruler le DSM? Pour une critique du DSM (article in the

form of interview). Le Cercle Psy: Le journal de toutes les psychologies,

December 2011, 66-73. (pub in French). Available online at:

179. Wakefield, J. C. (2011). Darwin, functional explanation, and the philosophy of

psychiatry. In Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block, Maladapting minds:

Philosophy, psychiatry, and evolutionary theory (pp. 143-172). Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

178. Wakefield, J. C. (2011). Should uncomplicated bereavement-related depression be

reclassified as a disorder in DSM-5?: Response to Kenneth S. Kendler’s statement

on the DSM-5 website defending the proposal to eliminate the bereavement

exclusion. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199, 203-208.

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177. Wakefield, J. C., Schmitz, M. F., & Baer, J. C. (2011). Did narrowing the major

depression bereavement exclusion from DSM-III-R to DSM-IV increase

validity?: Evidence from the NCS. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199,

66-73.

176. Wakefield, J. C. (2011). The right to massacre? Internationally distributed by Project

Syndicate. http://www.projectsyndicate.org/commentary/wakefield3/English

Published in: India Times, Guatamala Times, Turkish weekly.

So far, the column has appeared in 5 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French,

German. It has appeared in:

Africa BOTSWANA: «Mmegi»

LIBERIA: «The New Dawn»

MALI: «Les Echos»

Asia CHINA: «Caijing Magazine»

MYANMAR: «Burma Digest»

SINGAPORE: «Lianhe Zaobao»

Latin America EL SALVADOR: «ContraPunto»

GUATEMALA: «The Guatemala Times»

Near East IRAQ: «Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed»

KUWAIT: «Al Jarida»

KUWAIT: «Al Watan Daily»

QATAR: «Al Raya»

QATAR: «Gulf Times»

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: «Al Khaleej»

Western Europe GERMANY: «Die Welt»

UNITED KINGDOM: «The Scotsman»

175. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2011). The challenge of measurement of mental

disorder in community surveys. In Pilgrim, D., Rogers, A., & Pescosolido, B.

(Eds.), The Sage handbook of mental health and illness (pp. 26-48). New York:

Sage.

174. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2011). The expansion of post-traumatic stress

disorder: Some issues regarding diagnosis and treatment. MD Advisor, 4(1), 6-10.

173. First, M. B., & Wakefield, J. C. (2011). Our take: Is alleged Arizona shooter evil or

mentally ill? CNN Belief Blog, January 17, 2011.

172. First, M. B., & Wakefield, J. C. (2010, November). Defining ‘mental disorder’ in

DSM-V. Psychological Medicine, 40(11), 1779-1782.

http://www.projectsyndicate.org/commentary/wakefield3/English

/Users/jw111/Desktop/AIR11%20documents%20Pro/Publishing%20Report.html

/Users/jw111/Desktop/AIR11%20documents%20Pro/Publishing%20Report.html

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171. Wakefield, J. C. (2010). Misdiagnosing normality: Psychiatry’s failure to address

the problem of false positive diagnoses of mental disorder in a changing

professional environment. Journal of Mental Health, 19 (4), 337-351. (special

issue on Diagnosis)

170. Wakefield, J. C. (trans. Paolo Migone). (2010). Patologizzare la normalità:

L’incapacità della psichiatria di individuare i falsi positivi nelle diagnosi dei

disturbi mentali. (Pathologizing the normal: Psychiatry’s failure to identify false

positive diagnoses of mental disorder). Psicoterapia e scienze umane, XLIV(3),

295-314.

169. Wakefield, J. C., Schmitz, M. F., & Baer, J. C. (2010). Reply to Stotland Letter:

False Positives and False Negatives, Two Complementary Challenges. (Letter)

American Journal of Psychiatry, 167, 867.

168. Wakefield, J. C., Schmitz, M. F., & Baer, J. C. (2010). Reply to Baumeister Letter:

DSM-V Subsyndromal Depression Diagnostic Criteria Require a High-Threshold

Clinical Significance Criterion and Reference to Context. (Letter) American

Journal of Psychiatry, 167, 866-867.

167. Wakefield, J. C., Baer, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2010). Differential Diagnosis of

Depressive Illness Versus Intense Normal Sadness: How Significant is the

“Clinical Significance Criterion” for Major Depression? (Editorial) Expert Review

of Neurotherapeutics, 10(7), 1015-1018.

166. Wakefield, J. C. (2010). To end the gaping political divide over Roe, revisit Doe.

History News Network, April 5, 2010. http://www.hnn.us/articles/125080.html

Reprinted in/linked to: India Times,

http://1click.indiatimes.com/article/0aTU4JWcX94KC?q=Mother

Reprinted in/linked to: USA Today

http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/People/Politicians,+Government+Offici

als,+Strategists/U.S.+Senators/Tom+Daschle/0aTU4JWcX94KC/2

Reprinted in/linked to: Independent Torch

The Independent Torch » History News Network » April 2010

165. Wakefield, J. C. (2010). Psychiatry’s conceptual malpractice. Project Syndicate - An

Association of Newspapers Around the World (a not-for-profit association of over

390 leading newspapers with a circulation of over 24 million in 146 countries that

publish accepted opinion pieces). http://www.project-

syndicate.org/commentary/wakefield2/English

So far, this column has appeared in 6 languages: Arabic, Bulgarian,

Burmese, English, French and Romanian. It has appeared in the following

http://www.hnn.us/articles/125080.html

http://1click.indiatimes.com/article/0aTU4JWcX94KC?q=Mother

http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/People/Politicians,+Government+Officials,+Strategists/U.S.+Senators/Tom+Daschle/0aTU4JWcX94KC/2

http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/People/Politicians,+Government+Officials,+Strategists/U.S.+Senators/Tom+Daschle/0aTU4JWcX94KC/2

http://independenttorch.com/feed.php?channel=14&y=2010&m=04

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/wakefield2/English

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/wakefield2/English

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newspapers:

Africa

ALGERIA, Le Quotidien d'Oran

EGYPT, Daily News Egypt

LIBERIA, The New Dawn

Asia

MYANMAR, Burma Digest

TAIWAN, Taipei Times

SOUTH KOREA, Korea Herald

Eastern Europe

BULGARIA, Obekti

ROMANIA, Romania Libera

Near East

IRAQ, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed

JORDAN, Jordan Times

KUWAIT, Al Watan Daily

LEBANON, L'Orient le Jour

QATAR, Gulf Times

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Al Khaleej

Western Europe

BELGIUM, La Libre Belgique

CYPRUS, Cyprus Mail

164. Wakefield, J. C. (2010). Taking disorder seriously: A critique of psychiatric criteria

for mental disorders from the harmful-dysfunction perspective. In Millon, T.,

Krueger, R. F., & Simonsen, E. (Eds.), Contemporary directions in

psychopathology: Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11 (pp. 275-302).

New York: Guilford Press.

163. Wakefield, J. C., Schmitz, M. F., & Baer, J. C. (2010). Does the DSM-IV Clinical

Significance Criterion for Major Depression Reduce False Positives?: Evidence

from the NCS-R. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 167, 298-304.

162. Wakefield, J. C. (2010). False positives in psychiatric diagnosis: Implications for

human freedom. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (special issue devoted to

philosophy of psychiatry, edited by Thomas Schramme), 31(1), 5-17.

161. Wakefield, J. C., & Horwitz, A. V. (2010). PTSD: Normal reactions to adversity or

symptoms of disorder? In Rosen, G. M., & Frueh, B. C. (Eds.), The Clinician’s

Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (pp. 33-50). New York: John Wiley &

Sons.

160. Wakefield, J. C., & Schmitz, M. F. (2010). The measurement of mental disorder. In

Teresa Scheid and Tony Brown (eds.), A handbook for the study of mental health:

Social contexts, theories, and systems, second edition (pp. 20-45). New York:

Cambridge University Press.

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159. Wakefield, J. C., & Baer, J. C. (2010). The cognitivization of psychoanalysis:

Toward an integration of psychodynamic and cognitive theories. In W. Borden

(Ed.), Reshaping theory in contemporary social work: Toward a critical pluralism

in clinical practice (pp. 51-80). New York: Columbia University Press.

158. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2009). Enhancing access through Teenscreen:

Drs. Horwitz and Wakefield reply. Journal of the American Academy of Child &

Adolescent Psychiatry. 48:1126-1127. (Letter).

157. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2009). The medicalization of sadness: How

psychiatry transformed a natural emotion into a medical disorder. In Antonio

Maturo and Peter Conrad (Eds.), The Medicalization of Life (pp. 49-66), special

issue of Health and Society, VIII, n. 2. (English Edition)

156. Wakefield, J. C., & Horwitz, A. H. (2009). Screening for Adolescent Depression:

It’s OK for teens to feel sadness. Newsday (Opinion), Sunday August 9, 2009.

http://prod.newsday.com/opinion/opinion-it-s-ok-for-teens-to-feel-sadness-

1.1356674

155. Wakefield, J. C. (2009). Disability and diagnosis: Should role impairment be

eliminated from DSM/ICD diagnostic criteria? World Psychiatry, 8, 87-88.

154. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2009). Should Screening for Depression Among

Children and Adolescents be Demedicalized? Journal of the American Academy

of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48, 683-687. (Editor’s Choice for July 2009:

Both the Editor’s Comment and a Response Editorial discussed our paper.)

153. Wakefield, J. C., & Demazeuz, S. (2009). Pour une critique constructive de la

psychiatrie américaine (For a constructive critique of American psychiatry).

Psychiatrie Sciences Humaines Neurosciences (Psychiatry, Human Sciences,

Neurosciences), 6, 1-8. (In French: interview)

152. Wakefield, J. C., Schmitz, M. F., First, M. B., & Horwitz, A. V. (2009). The

importance of the main effect, even within an interaction model: On expanding

the bereavement exclusion for major depression. The American Journal of

Psychiatry (Letter to the Editor), 166, 491-492.

151. Wakefield, J. C. (2009) Mental disorder and moral responsibility: Disorders of

personhood as harmful dysfunctions, with special reference to alcoholism.

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 16, 91-99.

150. Wakefield, J. C., & Horwitz, A. V. (2009). Depressive symptoms after loss are not

necessarily signs of major depression: Response to Pies. Psychiatric Times.

(Letter), 26 (6), May 12, 2009.

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149. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2009). Is sadness a disease? Project Syndicate -

An Association of Newspapers Around the World (a not-for-profit association of

over 390 leading newspapers with a circulation of over 24 million in 146

countries that publish accepted opinion pieces). http://www.project-

syndicate.org/commentary/horwitz1/English

So far, the column has appeared in 6 languages: Arabic, English, French, German,

Serbian and Spanish

Africa

EGYPT, Daily News Egypt

NIGERIA, Business Day

RWANDA, The New Times

Asia

BANGLADESH, The Independent

INDIA, Daily News and Analysis (DNA)

KOREA, SOUTH, The Korea Herald

MYANMAR, Burma Digest

Europe

AUSTRIA, Der Standard

BELGIUM, La Libre Belgique

CYPRUS, Cyprus Mail

MONTENEGRO, Vijesti

SPAIN, Capital

Latin America

COSTA RICA, La Nacion

GUYANA, Stabroek News

NICARAGUA, El Nuevo Diario

Near East

IRAQ, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed

JORDAN, Jordan Times

LEBANON, L'Orient le Jour

North America

UNITED STATES, Herald Gazette

148. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2009). La medicalizzazione della tristezza:

Come la psyichiatria ha trasformato una semplice emozione in un disturbo

mentale." In Antonio Maturo and Peter Conrad (Eds.), La Medicalizzazione della

Vita (pp. 56-74). Salute e Societa VIII, no 2. (In Italian)

147. Wakefield, J. C. (2009). Kucuk Hans ve Dusunce Polisi: Supervisore Yonelik

Aktarim Duslemlerinin Bildirilmis Ilk Ornegi Olarak “Polis Duslemleri” (Little

Hans and the thought police: The 'policeman fantasies' as the first reported

supervisory transference fantasies). B. Habip (Ed.), The International Journal of

Psychoanalysis: Turkish Annual of Psychoanalysis (pp. 53-76). Istanbul, Turkey:

Turkish Publishing Committee. (In Turkish)

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146. Wakefield, J. C. (2009). Putting humpty dumpty together again: Treatment of

mental disorders and pursuit of justice as part of social work's mission. In E.

Gambrill (Ed.), Social work ethics. The International Library of Essays in Public

and Professional Ethics (pp.129-145). Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing

Limited.

145. Wakefield, J. C. (2009). The definition of depression. In R. E. Ingram (Ed.),

International encyclopedia of depression (pp. 205-208). New York: Springer.

144. Horwitz, A. V., Wakefield, J. C., & Lehrer, J. (December 3, 2008). Is there really an

epidemic of depression? Scientific American Mind (“Mind Matters” column

published online: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=really-an-epidemic-of-

depression)

143. Wakefield, J. C. (2008). Para uma definição de doença mental: valores e factos. (In

English: Legal judgments of mental disorder: Values and facts in the concept of

mental disorder.) In A. C. Fonseca (Ed.). Psicologia e Justiça (Psychology and

Justice)(pp. 99-121). Coimbra, Portugal: Nova Almedina. (In Portuguese)

142. Wakefield, J. W. (2008). "Reminiscencias del Profesor Sigmund Freud" de Max

Graf, visitado de Nuevo: Nuevas evidencias de los archivos Freud.” To appear in

the May 2008 edition of Fort-da (www.fort-da.org). (In Spanish)

141. Wakefield, J. C., & Horwitz, A. V. (2008). Noonday demons and midnight sorrows:

Biology and meaning in disordered and normal sadness. Contemporary

Psychoanalysis, 44, 551-570.

140. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2008). Screening for depression in general

medical practice: How can natural sadness be distinguished from major

depressive disorder? MD Advisor, 1(3; summer 2008), 10-15.

139. Wakefield, J. (2008). New myths and harsh realities: Reply to Paul on the

implications of Paul and Lentz (1977) for generalization from token economies to

uncontrolled environments. Behavior and Social Issues, 17, 86-110.

138. Wakefield, J. C. (2008). The perils of dimensionalization: Distinguishing personality

traits from personality disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 31, 379-

393. (special issue: “Recent research in personality disorders”).

137. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2008). An epidemic of depression: Major

depressive disorder or normal sadness? Psychiatric Times, 2008; 25: 44-45.

136. Wakefield, J. C., & Baer, J. C. (2008). Levels of meaning and the case for

theoretical integration. Social Work Now: The Practice Journal of Child, Youth,

and Family, 39 (April), 21-28. (special issue honoring Sharon Berlin).

http://www.fort-da.org/

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135. Wakefield, J. (2008). Little Hans and the thought police: The “Policeman Fantasies”

as the first supervisory transference fantasies. International Journal of

Psychoanalysis, 89, 71-88.

134. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. W. (winter 2007-2008). The virtue of sadness.

Greater Good: Magazine of the Greater Good Science Center at University of

California, Berkeley, 4, 40.

133. Eagle, M. N., & Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Action potentials and representationality:

Reply to Dr. Cali’s commentary. Gestalt Theory - An International

Multdisciplinary Journal, 29, 173-175.

132. Wakefield, J. (2007). Is behaviorism becoming a pseudoscience?: Replies to Drs.

Wyatt, Midkiff and Wong. Behavior and Social Issues, 16, 170-189.

131. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Sadness is not a disorder. Philadelphia

Inquirer (Op-ed). 12/09/07, pp. B1-B2. (Named one of 4 best columns in the U.S.

for that week by THE WEEK magazine.)

130. Wakefield, J. C. (2007). El concepto de trastorno mental: implicaciones 149

diagnósticas del análisis de la disfunción prejudicial. In World Psychiatry,

Edicion en Espanol, 5, 149-156.

129. Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Why psychology needs conceptual analysts: Wachtel’s

“Discontents” revisited. Applied & Preventive Psychology, 12, 39-43.

128. Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Attachment and sibling rivalry in Little Hans: The

‘phantasy of the two giraffes’ reconsidered. Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association, 55, 821-849.

127. Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Little Hans and attachment theory: Bowlby’s hypothesis

reconsidered in light of new evidence from the Freud Archives. The

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 62, 61-91.

126. Wakefield, J. C. (2007). The concept of mental disorder: Diagnostic implications of

the harmful dysfunction analysis. World Psychiatry, 6, 149-156. (Target article of

a Forum on “What Is Mental Disorder?”, with nine commentaries on my article.)

125. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2007). The age of depression. In Duffy, K. G.

(Ed.), Annual editions: Psychology, 37th edition (pp.155-161). New York:

McGraw-Hill.

124. Eagle, M. N., & Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Gestalt psychology and the mirror neuron

discovery. Gestalt Theory - An International Multdisciplinary Journal, 29, 59-64.

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123. Wakefield, J.C. (2007). What makes a mental disorder mental? Philosophy,

Psychiatry, and Psychology, 13, 123-131.

122. Wakefield, J. C., Schmitz, M. F., First, M. B., & Horwitz, A. V. (2007). Extending

the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: Evidence from

the National Comorbidity Survey. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 433-440.

121. Spitzer, R. L., First, M.B., & Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Saving PTSD from itself in

DSM-V. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 21, 233-241.

120. Wakefield, J. C. (2007). Max Graf’s “Reminiscences of Professor Sigmund Freud”

revisited: New evidence from the Freud Archives. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 76,

149-192.

119. Wakefield, J. C. (Fall, 2006). Can relational problems be genuine medical disorders?

A harmful dysfunction perspective. The Family Psychologist, 22, 8-14.

118. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2006). Normal and abnormal misery: Response

to Magee. Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, 5(4) (fall,

2006), 5.

117. Wakefield, J. C. (2006). Is behaviorism becoming a pseudo-science?: Power versus

scientific rationality in the eclipse of token economies by biological psychiatry in

the treatment of schizophrenia. Behavior and Social Issues, 15, 202-221.

116. Wakefield, J. C. (2006). High mental disorder rates are based on invalid measures:

Questions about the claimed ubiquity of mutation-induced dysfunction.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 424-426.

115. Wakefield, J. C. (2005 [pub 2006]). The concept of mental disorder. In A.

Dimitrijevic (ed.) Savremena shvatanja mentalnog zdravlja I Poremecaja

(Contemporary Approaches to Mental Health and Disorder) (pp.121-158).

Beograd: Zavod za udzbenike i nastavna sredstva (Beograd: Grafo-kpmerc). (In

Serbian translation)

114. Wakefield, J. C. (2006). Are there relational disorders?: A harmful dysfunction

perspective: Comment on the special section. Journal of Family Psychology, 20,

423-427.

113. Wakefield, J. C. (2006). Fait et valeur dans le concept de trouble mental: le trouble

en tant que dysfonction prejudiciable (Fact and value in the concept of mental

disorder: Disorder as harmful dysfunction). Philosophiques 33, 37-64. (In French;

in a special issue introducing a French-speaking audience to recent developments

in Anglo-American philosophical psychopathology.).

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112. Wakefield, J. C. (2006). Personality disorder as harmful dysfunction: DSM’s

cultural deviance requirement reconsidered. Journal of Personality Disorders, 20,

157-169.

111. Wakefield, J. C. (2006). Sexual reorientation therapy. In Drescher, J., & Zucker, K.

J. (Eds.) Ex-gay research: Analyzing the Spitzer study and its relation to science,

religion, politics, and culture (pp. 201-207). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

110. Wakefield, J. C., Kirk, S. A., Pottick, K. J., Tian, X., & Hsieh, D. K. (2006). The lay

concept of conduct disorder: Do non-professionals use syndromal symptoms or

internal dysfunction to distinguish disorder from delinquency? Canadian Journal

of Psychiatry, 51, 210-217.

109. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2006). The epidemic in mental illness: Clinical

fact or survey artifact? Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, 5,

19-23.

108. Horwitz, A. V., & Wakefield, J. C. (2006). The age of depression. In Duffy, K. G.

(Ed.), Annual editions: Psychology, 36th edition (pp.155-161). New York:

McGraw-Hill.

107. Eagle, M., Wakefield, J.C., & Wolitzky, D. (2005). Response to Altman and Davies

(letter). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 53, 268.

106. Wakefield, J. C. (2005). Does social work need the ecological perspective?: Reply to

Alex Gitterman. PowerWeb Social Work Library (password protected on-line

anthology). New York: McGraw-Hill.

105. Wakefield, J.C. (2005). Does social work need the eco-systems perspective?: Part 2.

Does the perspective save social work from incoherence? PowerWeb Social Work

Library (password protected on-line anthology). New York: McGraw-Hill.


Is the perspective clinically useful? PowerWeb Social Work Library (password

protected on-line anthology). New York: McGraw-Hill.

103. Wakefield, J. C. (2005). El guino ante los hechos y la perdida de la concepcion de

Hare: el pluralismo de los valores y el analisis de la disfuncion prejudicial. World

Psychiatry Edicion en Espanol, 3, 88-89

102. Wakefield, J. C. (2005). Biological function and dysfunction. D. Buss (Ed.),

Handbook of evolutionary psychology (pp. 878-902). New York: Oxford Press.

101. Wakefield, J. C., Horwitz, A. V., & Schmitz, M. (2005). Social disadvantage is not

mental disorder: Response to Campbell-Sills and Stein. Canadian Journal of

Psychiatry 50, 324-326.

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100. Wakefield, J. C., Horwitz, A. V., & Schmitz, M. (2005). Are we overpathologizing

social anxiety?: Social phobia from a harmful dysfunction perspective. Canadian

Journal of Psychiatry 50, 317-319.

99. Wakefield, J. C. (2005). On winking at the facts, and losing one’s Hare: Value

pluralism and the harmful dysfunction analysis. World Psychiatry 4, 88-89.

98. Wakefield, J. C. (2005). Sexual dysfunction or pain disorder?: Dyspareunia from the

perspective of the harmful dysfunction analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior 34,

52-57.

97. Wakefield, J. C. (2005). Il concetto di salute mentale: una critica a Vaillant. (Vaillant

on positive mental health.) Psicoterapia E Scienze Umane 39(1), 91-96. (in

Italian)

96. Wakefield, J. C. (2004). Realta e valori nel concetto di disturbo mentale: il disturb

come disfunzione dannosa. (Facts and values in the concept of mental disorder.)

Psicoterapia E Scienze Umane 38, 439-464 (in Italian).

95. Wakefield, J. C. (2005). Disorders versus problems of living in the DSM: Rethinking

social work’s relationship to psychiatry. In Kirk, S. A. (Ed.), Mental disorders in

the social environment: Critical perspectives (pp. 83-95). New York: Columbia

University Press.

94. Wakefield, J. C. (2005). Putting Humpty together again: Treatment of mental disorder

and pursuit of justice as parts of social work’s mission. In Kirk, S. A., (Ed.)

Mental disorders in the social environment: Critical perspectives (pp. 293-309).

New York: Columbia University Press.

93. Horwitz, A., V. & Wakefield, J. C. (2005). The age of depression. The Public

Interest, winter 2005, pp. 39-58.

92. Eagle, M. N., & Wakefield, J. C. (2004). How NOT to escape from the Grunbaum

Syndrome: a critique of the “new view” of psychoanalysis. In Casement, A. (Ed.),

Who owns psychoanalysis? (pp. 343-362). London: Karnac Press.

91. Wakefield, J. C. (2004). The myth of open concepts: Meehl’s analysis of construct

meaning versus black box essentialism. Applied & Preventive Psychology, 11, 77-

82.

90. Eagle, M., Wakefield, J. C., & Wolitzky, D. (2003). Interpreting Mitchell’s

constructivism. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 51

(Supplement), 163-180.

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89. Wakefield, J. C. (2002; published in late 2003). Why specific design is not the mark

of the adaptational. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 532-533.

88. Wakefield, J.C.(2003). Fodor on inscrutability. Mind and Language, 18, 524-537.

87. Wakefield, J. C. (2003). Sexual reorientation therapy: Is it ever ethical? Does it ever

change sexual orientation? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32, 457-459.

86. Pottick, K.J., Wakefield, J.C., Kirk, S.A., & Tian, X. (2003). Influence of social

workers’ characteristics on the perception of mental disorder in youths. Social

Service Review, 77, 431-454.

85. Wakefield, J. C. (2003). Dysfunction as a factual component of disorder: Reply to

Houts, Part 2. Behavior Research and Therapy, 41, 969-990.

84. Wakefield, J. C. (2003). Gordon versus the Working Definition: Lessons from a

classic critique. Research on Social Work Practice, 13, 284-298.

83. Wakefield, J. C. (2003). The Chinese room argument reconsidered: Essentialism,

indeterminacy, and strong AI. Minds and Machines, 13, 285-319.

82. Wakefield, J. C., & First, M. (2003). Clarifying the distinction between disorder and

non-disorder: Confronting the overdiagnosis (“false positives”) problem in DSM-

V. In K. A. Phillips, M. B. First, & H. A. Pincus (Eds.), Advancing DSM:

Dilemmas in psychiatric diagnosis (pp. 23-56). Washington, DC: American

Psychiatric Press.

81. Spitzer, R.L., & Wakefield, J.C. (2002). Why pedophilia is a disorder of sexual

attraction—at least sometimes. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31, 499-500.

80. Wakefield, J. C. (2002). Values and the validity of diagnostic criteria: Disvalued

versus disordered conditions of childhood and adolescence. In J. Z. Sadler (Ed.),

Descriptions & prescriptions: Values, mental disorders, and the DSMs (pp. 148-

164). Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

79. Wakefield, J.C. (2002). Broad versus narrow content in the explanation of action:

Fodor on Frege cases. Philosophical Psychology, 15, 119-133.

78. Wakefield, J. C., Pottick, K. J., & Kirk, S. A. (2002). Should the DSM-IV diagnostic

criteria for conduct disorder consider social context? American Journal of


77. Wakefield, J.C., & Spitzer, R.L. (2002). Lowered estimates – but of what? Archives

of General Psychiatry, 59, 129-130.

76. Wakefield, J. C., & Spitzer, R. L. (2002). Requiring clinical significance does not

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solve epidemiology’s or DSM’s false positive problems: Response to Regier and

Narrow. In J. E. Helzer (Ed.), Defining psychopathology in the 21st

century:

DSM-V and beyond (pp. 31-40). Washington DC: American Psychiatric

Association.

75. Wakefield, J. C. (2002). Fixing a Foucault sandwich: Cognitive universals and

cultural particulars in the concept of mental disorder. In K. A. Cerulo (Ed.),

Culture in mind: Toward a sociology of culture and cognition (pp. 245-266). New

York: Routledge.

74. Buss, D. M., Haselton, M. G., Shackelford, T. K., Bleske, A. L., & Wakefield, J. C.

Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels. (2002). In D. J. Levitin (Ed),

Foundations of cognitive psychology: Core readings (pp. 639-664). Cambridge,

MA: MIT Press.

73. Wakefield, J. C. (2001). The myth of DSM’s invention of new categories of disorder:

Houts's diagnostic discontinuity thesis disconfirmed. Behavior Research and

Therapy, 39, 575-624.

72. Eagle, M. N., Wolitzky, D. L., & Wakefield, J. C. (2001). The analyst’s knowledge

and authority: A critique of the “New View” in psychoanalysis. Journal of the

American Psychoanalytic Association, 49, 457-490.

71. Wakefield, J. C. (2001). Evolutionary history versus current causal role in the

definition of disorder: Reply to McNally. Behavior Research and Therapy. 39,

347-366.

70. Wakefield, J. C. (2000). Spandrels, Vestigial organs, and such: Reply to Murphy and

Woolfolk’s “The harmful dysfunction analysis of mental disorder”. Philosophy,


69. Wakefield, J.C. (2000). Aristotle as sociobiologist: The 'function of a human being'

argument, black box essentialism, and the concept of mental disorder. Philosophy,


68. Spitzer, R. L., & Wakefield, J.C. (1999). DSM-IV diagnostic criterion for clinical

significance: Does it help solve the false positives problem? American Journal of

Psychiatry, 156, 1856-1864.

67. Wakefield, J.C., Kirk, S. A., Pottick, K., & Hsieh, D. (1999). Disorder attribution and

clinical judgment in the assessment of adolescent antisocial behavior. Social Work

Research, 23, 227-241.

66. Wakefield, J. C. (1999). Disorder as a black box essentialist concept. Journal of

Abnormal Psychology, 108, 465-472.

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65. Wakefield, J. C. (1999). Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of

disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 374-399.

64. Wakefield, J.C. (1999). Philosophy of science and the progressiveness of the DSM's

theory-neutral nosology: Response to Follette and Houts, Part 1. Behavior

Research and Therapy, 37, 963-999.

63. Wakefield, J.C. (1999). The concept of mental disorder as a foundation for the DSM's

theory-neutral nosology: Response to Follette and Houts, Part 2. Behavior

Research and Therapy, 37, 1001-1027.

62. Buss, D. M., Haselton, M. M. G., Shackelford, T. K., Bleske, A, & Wakefield, J. C.

(1999). Interactionism, flexibility, and inferences about the past. American

Psychologist., 54, 443-445.

61. Wakefield, J. C. (1999). The measurement of mental disorder. In A. V. Horwitz & T.

L. Scheid (Eds.), A handbook for the study of mental health : Social contexts,

theories, and systems (pp. 29-57). New York: Cambridge University Press.

60. Kirk, S. A., Wakefield, J.C., Hsieh, D., & Pottick, K. (1999). Social context and

social workers' judgment of mental disorder. Social Service Review, 73, 82-104.

59. Wakefield, J. C. (1998). Foucauldian fallacies: An essay review of Leslie Margolin's

Under the Cover of Kindness. Social Service Review, 72, 545-587.

58. Wakefield, J. C. (1998). Psychotherapy, distributive justice, and social work revisited.

Smith College Studies in Social Work, 69, 25-57.

57. Wakefield, J. C. (1998). The DSM's theory-neutral nosology is scientifically

progressive: Response to Follette and Houts. Journal of Consulting and Clinical

Psychology, 66, 846-852.

56. Wakefield, J.C., & Kirk, S. A. (1998). Reply to Bloom and Orme. Journal of Social

Work Education, 34, 312-315.

55. Buss, D. M., Haselton, M. M. G., Shackelford, T. K., Bleske, A, & Wakefield, J. C.

(1998). Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels. American Psychologist., 53, 533-

548.

54. Wakefield, J. C. (1998). Meaning and melancholia: Why DSM cannot (entirely)

ignore the patient's intentional system. In J. W. Barron (Ed.), Making diagnosis

meaningful: Enhancing evaluation and treatment of psychological disorders (pp.

29-72). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

53. Wakefield, J. C. (1998). Immortality and the externalization of the self: Plato's

unrecognized theory of generativity. In D. P. McAdams & E. de St. Aubin,

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Generativity and adult development : How and why we care for the next

generation.(pp. 133-174). Washington: American Psychological Association

Press.

52. Wakefield, J. C. (1997). Normal inability versus pathological disability: Why

Ossorio's (1985) definition of mental disorder is not sufficient. Clinical

Psychology: Science and Practice, 4, 249-258.

51. Wakefield, J. C., & Kirk, S. A. (1997). Science, dogma, and the scientist-practitioner

model. Social Work Research, 21, 201-205.

50. Wakefield, J. C., & Eagle, M. (1997). Psychoanalysis and Wittgenstein: A reply to

Richard Allen. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 20, 323-351.

49. Wakefield, J. C. (1997). When is development disordered? Developmental

psychopathology and the harmful dysfunction analysis of mental disorder.

Development and Psychopathology , 9, 269-290. In a Special Issue on Conceptual

and Scientific Underpinnings of Research in Developmental Psychopathology.

48. Wakefield, J. C. (1997). Diagnosing DSM-IV, Part 2: Eysenck (1986) and the

essentialist fallacy. Behavior Research and Therapy, 35, 651-666.

47. Wakefield, J. C. (1997). Diagnosing DSM-IV, Part 1: DSM-IV and the concept of

mental disorder. Behavior Research and Therapy, 35, 633-650.

46. Wakefield, J.C., & Kirk, S. A. (1997). What the practitioner knows versus what the

patient is told: Neglected dilemmas of informed consent in an account of single

system experimental designs. Journal of Social Work Education, 33, 275-292.

45. Wakefield, J.C. (1997). Social work and psychiatry: Toward a conceptually based

partnership. In E. Gambrill & M. Reisch (Eds.), Social work n the 21st century

(pp. 328-339). New York: Pine Forge Press.

44. Wakefield, J. C. (1996). Does social work need the ecological perspective?: Reply to

Alex Gitterman. Social Service Review, 70, 476-481.

43. Wakefield, J.C. (1996). DSM-IV: Are we making diagnostic progress? Contemporary



Does the perspective save social work from incoherence? Social Service Review,

70, 183-213.

41. Wakefield, JC. (1996). Erratum: “Does social work need the eco-systems

perspective?: Part 1. Is the perspective clinically useful?” Social Service Review,

70, U3.

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Is the perspective clinically useful? Social Service Review, 70, 1-32.

39. Wakefield, J. C. (1996). The concept of mental disorder: On the boundary between

biological facts and social values. In R. M. Edwards (ed.), Ethics in psychiatry:

Insanity, rational autonomy, and mental health care. Prometheus Books.

38. Wakefield, J.C., & Kirk, S. A. (1996). Unscientific thinking about scientific practice:

Evaluating the scientist-practitioner model. Social Work Research, 20, 83-96.

37. Wakefield, J.C. (1995). Dysfunction as a value-free concept: Reply to Sadler and

Agich. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 2, 233-246.

36. Wakefield, J. C. (1995). When an irresistable epistemology meets an immovable

ontology. Social Work Research, 19, 9-17.

35. Wakefield, J. C. (1994). Freud e la psicologia cognitiva: La interfaccia concettuale

(Freud and cognitive psychology: The conceptual interface). Psicoterapia e

scienze umane, 28, 33-65. (Italian transl.)

34. Wakefield, J. C. (1994). Social work and social control: A reply to Austin. Social

Service Review, 68, 440-453.

33. Wakefield, J. C. (1994). Is the concept of mental disorder culturally relative? In S.

Kirk & S. Einbinder (eds.), Controversial issues in mental health (pp. 11-17).

Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

32. Wakefield, J. C. (1994). Theories are not concepts: Reply to Kirmayer. In S. Kirk &

S. Einbinder (eds.), Controversial issues in mental health (pp. 9-11). Boston:

Allyn and Bacon.

31. Wakefield, J. C. (1993). Philosophy of science and the evaluation of clinical theory:

A reply to the Piepers. Social Service Review, 67, 654-666.

30. Wakefield, J. C. (1993). Following the Piepers: Replies to Tyson, Steinberg, and

Miller. Social Service Review, 67, 673-682.

29. Wakefield, J. C. (1993). Is altruism part of human nature? Toward a theoretical

foundation for the helping professions. Social Service Review, 67, 406-458.

28. Wakefield, J. C. (1993). Psychoanalytic fallacies: Reflections on Martha Heineman

Pieper and William Joseph Pieper's Intrapsychic Humanism. Social Service

Review, 67, 127-155.

27. Wakefield, J. C. (1993). Limits of operationalization: A critique of Spitzer and

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Endicott's (1978) proposed operational criteria for mental disorder. Journal of

Abnormal Psychology, 102, 160-172.

26. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). The concept of mental disorder: On the boundary between

biological facts and social values. American Psychologist, 47, 373-388.

25. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). Disorder as harmful dysfunction: A conceptual critique of

DSM-III-R's definition of mental disorder. Psychological Review, 99, 232-247.

24. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). Why psychotherapeutic social work don't get no re-Specht.

Social Service Review, 66, 141-151.

23. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). Freud and cognitive psychology: The conceptual interface. In

J. Barron, M. Eagle & D. Wolitzky (Eds.), Interface of psychoanalysis and

psychology (pp. 77-98). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

22. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). Freud and the intentionality of affect. Psychoanalytic


21. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). Is private practice a proper form of social work? In E.

Gambrill & R. Pruger (Eds.), Controversial issues in social work (pp. 221-230).

Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

20. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). Rejoinder to Professors Richey and Stevens. In E. Gambrill

& R. Pruger (Eds.), Controversial issues in social work (pp. 238-240). Boston:

Allyn and Bacon.

19. Wakefield, J. C., & Dreyfus, H. L. (1991). Phenomenology and the intentionality of

action. In E. LePore & R. V. Gulick (Eds.), John Searle and his critics (pp. 259-

270). Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

18. Wakefield, J. C. (1991). Why emotions can't be unconscious: An exploration of

Freud's essentialism. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 14, 29-67.

17. Wakefield, J. C. (1991). Vlastos on the unity of virtue: Why Pauline predication won't

save the biconditionality thesis. Ancient Philosophy, 11, 47-65.

16. Wakefield, J. C. (1990). Expert systems, Socrates, and the philosophy of mind. In L.

Videka-Sherman & W. J. Reid (Eds.), Advances in clinical social work research

(pp. 92-100). Silver Spring, MD: NASW Press.

15. Wakefield, J. C. (1990). Why instinctual impulses can't be unconscious: An

exploration of Freud's cognitivism. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought,

13, 265-288.

14. Wakefield, J. C. (1990). Is Freud's concept of instinct incoherent?: Resolving

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Strachey's dilemma. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 13, 241-264.

13. Wakefield, J. C. (1989). Levels of explanation in personality theory. In D. Buss and

N. Cantor (Eds.), Personality psychology: Recent trends and emerging directions

(pp. 333-346). New York: Springer-Verlag.

12. Wakefield, J. C. (1989). Manufacturing female dysfunction: A reply to Morokoff.

American Psychologist, 44, 75-77.

11. Wakefield, J. C. (1988). Psychotherapy, distributive justice, and social work: I.

Distributive justice as a conceptual framework for social work. Social Service

Review, 62, 187-210.

10. Wakefield, J. C. (1988). Psychotherapy, distributive justice, and social work: II.

Psychotherapy and the pursuit of justice. Social Service Review, 62, 353-382.

9. Wakefield, J. C. (1988). Female primary orgasmic dysfunction: Masters and Johnson

versus DSM-III-R on diagnosis and incidence. Journal of Sex Research, 24, 363-

377.

8. Wakefield, J. C. (1988). Hermeneutics and empiricism: Commentary on Donald

Meichenbaum. In S. Messer, L. Sass, & R. Woolfolk (eds.), Hermeneutics and

psychological theory: Interpretive approaches to personality, psychotherapy, and

psychopathology (pp. 131-148). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

7. Dreyfus, H. L., & Wakefield, J. C. (1988). From depth psychology to breadth

psychology: A phenomenological approach to psychopathology. In S. Messer, L.

Sass, & R. Woolfolk (eds.), Hermeneutics and psychological theory: Interpretive

approaches to personality, psychotherapy, and psychopathology (pp. 272-288).

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

6. Dreyfus, H. L., & Wakefield, J. C. (1988). Reply to Kovel. In S. Messer, L. Sass, & R.

Woolfolk (eds.), Hermeneutics and psychological theory: Interpretive approaches

to personality, psychotherapy, and psychopathology (pp. 295-297). New

Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

5. Wakefield, J. C. (1987). Sex bias in the diagnosis of primary orgasmic disorder.

American Psychologist, 42, 464-471.

4. Wakefield, J. C. (1987). The semantics of success: Do masturbation exercises lead to

partner orgasm? Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 13, 3-14.

3. Wakefield, J. C. (1987). Why justice and holiness are similar: Protagoras 360-363.

Phronesis, A Journal for Ancient Philosophy, 32, 267-276.

2. Wakefield, J. C. (1984). Sexualizing the self; Foucault on sex, power, and subjectivity.

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Invited paper for the Foucault memorial issue of UP: An International Quarterly

Review, summer 1984.

1. Payn, N. M., & Wakefield, J. C. (1982). The effects of group treatment of primary

orgasmic dysfunction on the marital relationship. Journal of Sex and Marital

Therapy, 8, 135-150.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

Wakefield, J. C. “Nosology Wars: How an Evolutionary Perspective Can Help to Resolve

the Clash Among Competing Approaches to Psychiatric Diagnosis.” To be given to the

Neuroethics Network 2019 Conference, Paris, France, June 19, 2019.

Baer, J. C., & Wakefield, J. C. “Scientific and Moral Arguments for Psychotherapy

Integration.” To be given to the annual conference of the Society for the Exploration of

Psychotherapy Integration, Lisbon, Portugal, June 7, 2019.

Wakefield, J. C. "Conceptual and ethical issues in the definition, classification, and

diagnosis of psychiatric disorders." Invited presentation to the NIH Bioethics Division,

Bethesda, Maryland, February 27, 2019.

Wakefield, J. C. “Robert Spitzer and the Definition of Mental Disorder:

Or, How the Leading Psychiatrist of the Twentieth Century Donned the Philosopher's

Mantle, Performed a Socially Momentous Conceptual Analysis of "Mental Disorder,"

Liberated Homosexuality from the "Psychopathology" Label, and Saved Psychiatry's

Soul as a Medical Specialty.” Invited Lecture: Robert L. Spitzer Memorial Lecture and

Grand Rounds, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and New York State

Psychiatric Institute, December 19, 2018.

Wakefield, J. C. "Has addiction been hijacked by the hijack hypothesis?: Rival

evolutionary perspectives on substance use and substance use disorder.” Invited paper

presented to The Nature of Addiction Workshop, Program in Cognitive Science,

Department of Philosophy, University Center of Human Values, Princeton University,

September 28, 2018.

Wakefield, J. C. “Addiction and the Concept of Disorder.” Invited Keynote Address to

the annual conference of the Romanell Center for Clinical Ethics and the Philosophy of

Medicine at State University of New York at Buffalo, July 29, 2018.


diagnosis of psychiatric disorders: The examples of addiction and hebephilia." Invited

presentation to the NIH Bioethics Division, Bethesda, Maryland. May 2, 2018.

Wakefield, J. C. Workshop on Philosophy of Science. Rutgers University DSW Program,

March 2, 2018.

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Wakefield, J. C. “Does DSM-5 Over-Pathologize Substance Use and Gambling

Disorders?" Featured Speaker at the 18th Annual NCRG (National Center for

Responsible Gaming) Conference on Gambling Addiction, Las Vegas, Nevada, October

2, 2017.

Wakefield, J. C. “Freud and Philosophy of Mind.” Presentation to the Seminar on

Science and Society, Philosophy Department. University of Bordeaux - Montaigne,

France. June, 2017.

Wakefield, J. C. “Uncomplicated Depression: Normal Sadness or Major Depressive

Disorder?” Applied Psychology Department,

Steinhardt School, New York University, March 8, 2017.

Wakefield, J. C. “Bioethical Implications of Medicalization.” Invited lecture and

discussion. DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy, Grand Valley State University, Grand

Rapids, Michigan, September 26, 2016.

Wakefield, J.C. “Bioethical Implications of Psychiatric Diagnosis.” Invited talk and

discussion with the philosophy and nursing departments, Grand Valley State University,

Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 26, 2016.

Wakefield, J. C. “Uncomplicated Depression: Normal Sadness or Major Depressive

Disorder?” Counseling and Clinical Psychology Department,

Teachers College, Columbia University, May 5, 2016.

Wakefield, J. C. “Uncomplicated Depression.” Conference on Evolution and

Psychopathology, Oakland University, Auburn Hills, Michigan. April 19, 2016.

Wakefield, J. C. “Comments on evolution and psychopathology: Crucial issues for the

field.” Conference on Evolution and Psychopathology, Oakland University, Auburn

Hills, Michigan. April 19, 2016.


diagnosis of psychiatric disorders" Invited presentation to the NIMH Bioethics Division,

Bethesda, Maryland. April 12, 2016.

Wakefield, J. C. Keynote address: “Taxonomizing DSM-5: Health, Psychological Justice,

and Virtue as Organizing Values of Psychiatry.” Southern Society for Philosophy and

Psychology, Louisville KY, March 11, 2016.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5: Changes and Controversies.” Department of Social Work, Mt.

Sinai-St. Lukes and Roosevelt Hospitals In-service training, January 14, 2016.

Wakefield, J. C. “The Day the Horse Fell Down: Rethinking Freud’s Argument for the

Oedipus Complex in the Case of Little Hans.” Clinical and Research Seminar, New

School for Social Research, November 3, 2015.

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Wakefield, J. C. “Is Psychiatry Misdiagnosing Normal Sadness as Depressive Disorder?:

The DSM-5 Debate Over the Bereavement Exclusion and What the Latest Research

Reveals.” Endowed Lecture: Rhoda Sarnat Lecture, 2015. School of Social Service

Administration, University of Chicago, October 22, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. “Mastering the DSM-5: Changes, Controversies, and Parts Unknown.”

All-day workshop for NASW—New York City Chapter, October 18, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. KEYNOTE: Psychiatric Diagnosis and Social Justice: DSM-5 Changes

in Child Diagnosis and Their Social, Policy, and Forensic Implications. DSW Program

Orientation, NYU Silver School, August 28, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. KEYNOTE: “Grief and Pathology.” At a conference on Bioethics and

the Philosophy of Medicine, SUNY Buffalo Philosophy Dept., Aug. 1, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. KEYNOTE: “The Biostatistical Theory Versus the Harmful Dysfunciton

Analysis, Part 2.” At a conference on Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine, SUNY

Buffalo Philosophy Dept., July 31, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. “Concept Representation in the Child: What Did Little Hans Mean by

‘Widdler’?” Rapaport-Klein Study Group in Ego Psychology, Annual Conference,

Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Mass. June 13, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. “The Little Hans Case and the Questionable Foundations of Freudian

Oedipal Theory.” International Psychohistory Association Annual Conference, New York

University, June 3, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. “Brain Trek: Conceptual Challenges in RDoC’s Bold Search for

Psychological Dysfunctions in Brain Circuitry.” In a Symposium: 'The dimensionality of

disorders: The RDoC scheme and what it means for clinical psychology’. Association for

Psychological Science Conference, May 22, 2015, NYC.


All-day workshop for NASW—New York City Chapter, May 16, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Changes in Child Diagnosis: Social, Policy, and Forensic

Implications.” Endowed Lecture: The Davis Lecture in Health Administration, Center for

Health Administration Studies, School of Social Service Administration, University of

Chicago, April 28, 2015.

Appeared on the national radio talk show, “Philosophy Talks,” being interviewed by two

philosophers about the definition of mental disorder and the DSM approach to

depression, March 8, 2015.


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All-day workshop for NASW—New York City Chapter, February 7, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 and the concept of mental disorder.” Guest lecture to

“Abnormal Psychology” graduate course, Instructor David Wolitzky, NYU Dept. of

Psychology. January, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. “Mastering the DSM-5.” Workshop at the Ferkauf Graduate School of

Psychology, January 25, 2015.

Wakefield, J. C. “Theoretical and Diagnostic Perspectives on Grief and Bereavement.”

Presented at the First Michigan Pediatric Hospice & Bereavement Conference, sponsored

by Art for Charlie, Hospice of Michigan, and Michigan State University College of

Human Medicine, November 1, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “The DSM-5 Bereavement Exclusion Debate: Science and

Pseudoscience in the Controversy over the Relationship between Grief and Depression.”

Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Michigan State

University, October 31, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “Is Psychiatry Misdiagnosing Normal Sadness as Depressive Disorder?

The DSM-5 Controversies Over Depression and Grief Disorders and What the Latest

Research Reveals.” Continuing Education Workshop, Michigan State University School

of Social Work, October 31, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “The Concept of Mental Disorder.” Presented at the Center for Ethics

and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, October 30, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “When is Grief Pathological?: The DSM-5 Debates Over the

Bereavement Exclusion and Complicated Grief.” Silver School of Social Work Summer

Lecture Series, June 13, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “Mastering DSM-5: Changes, Controversies, and Parts Unknown.” All-

day workshop for NASW—NYC, June 13, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 and Clinical Diagnosis: The Major Changes Every Clinician

Should Know About.” Clinic Technical Assistance Center (CTAC), June 5, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “Mastering the DSM-5.” All-day workshop for Rutgers University

Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program, and Psychiatric Services

(CAPS), April 30, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5: Changes, Controversies, and Parts Unknown.” Vermont

Psychological Association, all-day workshop, April 25, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 and ICD-10: Negotiating the DSM/ICD Interface.” All-day

workshop presented to the New York State Psychological Association, March 30, 2014.

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Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 and Caring for the Whole Person: Ethical, Social, and Legal

Issues in Recent Changes to Psychiatric Diagnosis.” Three-hour presentation presented at

Community Day at Kutztown University, Department of Social Work, March 14, 2014.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Depressive and Grief Disorders.” National Webinar for the

Practice Sections, National Association of Social Workers, December 11, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5: Forensic Issues and Diagnostic Changes and Controversies.”

New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, Trenton, New Jersey, December 4, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Overview: Mastering the Changes, Understanding the

Controversies.” New Jersey State Psychological Association, Iselin, New Jersey,

November 23, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Overview: Changes and Controversies.” Clinical and School

Psychology Programs, Department of Psychology, St. John’s University, Queens, New

York, November 22, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5: Forensic Issues and Diagnostic Changes and Controversies.”

Appellate Section, New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, Newark, New Jersey,

November 21, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Overview: Changes and Controversies.” Kentucky

Psychological Association, Lexington, Kentucky. November 16, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Depressive and Personality Disorders.” Kentucky Society of

Clinical Social Workers, Lexington, Kentucky. November 14, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “The DSM-5 Bereavement Exclusion Debate: Science versus

Pseudoscience.” Department of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky, Lexington,

Kentucky, November 13, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “Human freedom and psychiatric diagnosis.” School of Social Work,

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Changes and Controversies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

All-day workshop for the NASW-New York City chapter, held at Columbia University.

December 2, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. Interview on the DSM and diagnosis for “Rationally Speaking,” a

podcast. October 30, 2013.

http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs98-jerome-wakefield-on-psychiatric-

diagnoses-science-or-ps.html

Wakefield, J. C. “The Concept of Mental Disorder.” Brooklyn Philosophers, Brooklyn

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Public Library, October 28, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Changes and Controversies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

Dept. of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy/Counseling Psychology, Seton

Hall University, South Orange, NJ, October 25, 2013. All day workshop.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5: Changes and Controversies. All-day workshop. Vermont

Psychological Association, Montpelier, Vermont, October 18, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “The Difference between Sadness and Depression -- and Why it

Matters.” Mood Disorders Support Group (MDSG), Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York.

October 8, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5: Changes, Controversies, and Clinical Implications.” Review

provided at a workshop sponsored by NYU Social Work and NASW, October 4, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5: Changes, Controversies, and Clinical Implications.” Half-day

workshop at Kean University for Clinical Psychology and Social Work departments,

October 2, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5: Changes, Controversies, and Clinical Implications.” All-day

Workshop for CPC Behavioral Healthcare, Morgansville, NJ, September 27, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. “DSM-5 Changes: Implications for Supervision and Teaching.” Talk to

NYU faculty and clinical supervisors, September 26, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. Workshop on DSM-5: Changes and Controversies. Center for

Counseling and Psychological Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, August 23,

2013.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5 and the Sociology of Concept Deployment. American

Sociological Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, August 11, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. Basics of DSM-5 Changes for Parent Attorneys. 3rd National Parent

Attorneys Conference, American Bar Association, Conference for Parent-Child Law,

Washington D.C. July 11, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5: Changes and Controversies. Clinical Workshop presented at

Occupations (a mental health agency in Orange county). July 8, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5 and the Relationship between Depression and Grief. Silver

School of Social Work Summer Lecture Series. June 27, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5: Changes and Controversies. 6-hour workshop. Rutgers

University School of Social Work Continuing Education. June 13, 2013.

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Wakefield, J. C. Oedipus Complex as Power/Knowledge: Freud’s Case of little Hans

through a Foucauldian Lens. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural, Historical, and

Societal motivations. International Psychohistorical Association. New York, June 5,

2013.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5: Changes and Controversies. New York State Psychological

Association. June 2, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5: Preview of Coming Attractions. New York State Psychological

Association. March 3, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. Changes in the DSM-5: Multiaxial system and major depression. NYU

Phi Alpha Social Work Honor Society, March 2, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. Uncomplicated depression: Empirical evidence for a benign subtype of

major depression. Postdoctoral seminar, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and

Aging Research, Rutgers University. February 28, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. The DSM-5 Bereavement Exclusion and Complicated Grief Debates: Is

Psychiatry Becoming a Pseudoscience? Brown Bag seminar, Institute for Health, Health

Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University. February 28, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5: Controversies, Changes, and Clinical Implications. All-day

workshop. Vermont Psychological Association, Montpelier, Vermont, February 8, 2013.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5 Proposals for Paraphilic Disorders. New York State Society for

Clinical Social Work. Annual conference, October 13, 2012.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5 Proposals for Grief and Depression. DSM-5 Workshop. Silber

School of Social Work. June 2012.

Wakefield, J. C. Biostatistics Versus Harmful Dysfunction: Can a Sibling Rivalry be

Resolved? Presented at Philosophy of Medicine roundtable: Symposium to Celebrate

Christopher Boorse’s Contribution to Philosophy of Medicine. Hamburg University,

Germany. September 11, 2012.

Wakefield, J. C. Paraphilic Disorders and the DSM-5: How Far Can We Go? Conference

on “Perversion.” Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

(IHPST , CNRS/Université Paris I, Sorbonne), University of Paris, and Centre de

Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale et Société, Université Paris

Descartes, June 8, 2012.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5 Debate over the Bereavement Exclusion: A Review of my

research Program on Depression and Grief. Talk to the NYU Silver School of Social

Work Doctoral Program, March 29, 2012.

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Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5 and the Concept of Disorder: Is Normal Grief being

Pathologized? The Second Annual Clinical Lecture, University of Baltimore, Maryland,

February 16, 2012.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5 and the Concept of Disorder: Forensic Utility Versus Diagnostic

Validity in the Criteria for Paraphilic Disorders. Columbia University Forensic

Psychiatry Seminar. December 13, 2011.

Wakefield, J. C. DSM-5 and the Concept of Disorder: Is Psychiatry Pathologizing

Normal Grief? Lady David Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General

Hospital/McGill University, December 6, 2011.

Wakefield, J.C., and McDermott, T. The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, and Why They

Did It. Blos Memorial Lecture, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, November 8, 2011.

Wakefield, J. C. Sexual Paraphilias: Intersection of Law, Psychiatry, and Humanities.

Seminar on Humanities and Law, Columbia University School of Law, September 26,

2011.

Wakefield, J. C. A New Reading of the Little Hans Case. Paper delivered at a conference

in Paris: “Little Hans” Between Freud and Foucault: About Jerome Wakefield’s

Interpretation,” June 22, 2011.

Wakefield, J. C. Meaning and Explanation in Severe Mental Disorder and PTSD:

Comment on David Koczynski. Talk delivered at Professional Development Day, NYU

Silver School of Social Work, February 14, 2011.

Wakefield, J. C. Freud’s Case of Little Hans: Oedipal Theory and Family Power.

Humanities Initiative, NYU, February 8, 2011.

Wakefield, J. C. “Robert Spitzer and the Concept of Mental Disorder.” Columbia

University Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, December 17, 2010, in honor of the

retirement of Robert Spitzer.

Wakefield, J. C. “Conceptualizing problem gambling in DSM-5: Cautionary lessons from

the overpathologization of substance use and depression.” 11th Annual Gambling and

Addiction Conference, Institute for Research on Gambling Disorders, Las Vegas,

Nevada, Monday, November 15, 2010.

Lecture, “Translating Conceptual Controversies into Empirical Research: Testing the

Validity of DSM Major Depression Diagnostic Criteria; Part 2.” Institute for Social and

Psychiatric Initiatives (InSPIRES), Department of Psychiatry, NYU Medical

Center/Bellevue Hospital. November 10, 2010, Bellevue Hospital.

Seminar guest lecture, “Critique of the Eco-systems Perspective.” To the seminar on

advanced practice theory, NYU doctoral program.

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Lecture, “Translating Conceptual Controversies into Empirical Research: Testing the

Validity of DSM Major Depression Diagnostic Criteria, Part 1.” Institute for Social and

Psychiatric Initiatives (InSPIRES), Department of Psychiatry, NYU Medical

Center/Bellevue Hospital. October 26, 2010, Bellevue Hospital.

Invited Keynote Address. “Classification, Syndromal Criteria, and the Concept of

Disorder: Challenges to Validity.” SRP: Society for Research on Psychopathology,

Seattle, October 8 2010.

Expert Seminar: “Evolutionary Theory and Psychiatric Diagnosis: The Harmful

Dysfunction Analysis of the Concept of Mental Disorder." Discussant: Derek Bolton,

Professor of Philosophy and Psychopathology, King’s College London. Presented to The

Centre for the Humanities & Health and the Department of Philosophy, Institute for

Psychiatry, King’s College, London UK, June 25, 2010.

Lecture: “Clinical depression and the boundaries of illness: Are we misdiagnosing

intense normal sadness as mental disorder?” Discussants: Chris Dowrick, Professor of

Primary Medical Care, University of Liverpool and Derek Bolton, Professor of

Philosophy and Psychopathology, King’s College London. Presented to Institute of

Psychiatry, King’s College, London UK, June 24 2010.

Workshop presentation: “The Harmful Dysfunction (HD) Analysis: Response to

Commentators.” Discussants of HD: Derek Bolton, Philosophy and Psychopathology,

Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London; Maël Lemoine, Philosophy, Université

de Tours; Denis Forest, Philosophy, Université Lyon III Jean Moulin; Rachel Cooper,

Philosophy, Lancaster University; Luc Faucher, Philosophy, Université du Québec,

Montréal; Tim Thornton, Philosophy, University of central Lancashire, Preston.

Presented to the International Workshop on Philosophy of Psychiatry Today: Discussing

the Harmful Dysfunction Concept of Mental Disorder” Université Paris Sorbonne,

Amphithéâtre Émile Durkheim, June 19 2010.

Lecture: “Why Sociology Needs Conceptual Analysis: Comment on Alain Ehrenberg.”

Presented at the International Conference on “Sadness or Depressive Disorder?”

(“Tristesse ou dépression?”) Institut de Psychologie – Université Paris Descartes, June

17-18 2010, talk delivered June 18.

Lecture: “The Loss of Sadness: Is Intense Sadness Being Misdiagnosed as Mental

Disorder?” Presented at the International Conference on “Sadness or Depressive

Disorder?” (“Tristesse ou dépression?”) Institut de Psychologie – Université Paris

Descartes, June 17-18 2010, talk delivered June 18.

Workshop presentation: ““Epidemiology and the transformation of categories related to

depression.” Respondents: Professor Sir David Goldberg, Psychiatrist and Professor

Emeritus, Institute of Psychiatry and King’s College, London “Jerome Wakefield’s

thesis, British psychiatric epidemiology and clinical practice”; Viviane Kovess-Masféty,

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Psychiatrist and Professor of Public Health, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique,

Paris, “Depression and psychiatric epidemiology in Europe.” Presented to the

International Workshop on Psychiatric Epidemiology and Depression, Université Paris

Descartes, June 15 2010.

Research Seminar: “Do Unconscious Mental States Exist? Freud and Philosophy of

Mind”, Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven Belgium, June 10

2010.

Expert Seminar: “The Concept of Mental Disorder: The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis”

Discussants: Leen De Vreese (Philosophy, University of Ghent), Elselijn Kingma

(Philosophy, King’s College London), and Andreas De Block (Philosophy, University of

Leuven). Presented at The Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven,

Leuven Belgium, June 9 2010.

Lecture: “The Loss of Sadness. Are We Misdiagnosing Normal Sadness as Depressive

Disorder?” Presented at The Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven,

Leuven Belgium, June 7 2010.

“The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Intense Normal Sadness as Depressive

Disorder?” Mental Health Grand Rounds, Veterans Administration Medical Center,

Brooklyn, NY. April 23, 2010.

“Conceptualizing Problem Gambling: Cautionary Lessons from the Over-Pathologization

of Depression and Substance Use.” Discovery 2010: Responsible Gambling Council

Conference, Toronto, April 14, 2010.


Disorder?” Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn New York,

January 27, 2010.


Disorder?” Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of

Psychiatry, Richmond, Virginia, January 8, 2010.

“Mourning Bereavement: The Controversy Over What Should be Done with the

Bereavement Exclusion in the DSM-V.” Presentation to the Virginia Institute for

Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

Virginia. January 7, 2010.


Disorder?” Presentation to Faculty and Students at Villa La Pietra, NYU in Italy Center.

Nov 30, 2009.

“Do Unconscious Mental States Exist? Intentionality and Consciousness: How Freud and

Searle Went Wrong, and How to Make It Right.” Group for Psychoanalysis and the

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Humanities, Bologna, Italy. Nov 28, 2009.

“The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis of Mental Disorder.” Symposium on the Concept of

Mental Disorder, Health and Society Program, Malmo University, Malmo, Sweden, Nov

27, 2009.


Disorder?” Health and Society Program, Malmo University, Malmo, Sweden, Nov 26,

2009.

“Do Unconscious Mental States Exist? Intentionality and Consciousness: How Freud and

Searle Went Wrong, and How to Make It Right.” Center for the Study of Mind in Nature,

Institute for Philosophy, University of Oslo, Nov 25, 2009.


Disorder?” National Center for Research on Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, School of

Medicine, University of Oslo, Nov 23, 2009.

“Mental Disorder: Harmful Dysfunction or Pure Dysfunction?” University of Oslo,

Department of Philosophy, Nov 20, 2009. “First Opponent” Lecture at the University of

Oslo, in the dissertation defense of Jon Lindstrom for a doctorate in philosophy.


Disorder?” Presented to New York University School of Medicine, Department of

Psychiatry, Grand Rounds, October 29, 2009.

“The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Normal Human Emotion as Depressive

Disorder?” Presented to the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training program, Columbia

University College of Physicians and Surgeons, October 15, 2009.

Keynote address, “Depression is Just Another Name for Suffering: in the Affirmative”

Debate before the Psychiatric Society of Virginia. Roanoke, Virginia, September 26,

2009.

“’False Positives’ in Psychiatric Diagnosis from the Harmful Dysfunction Perspective:

Implications for human freedom,” (panel on Philosophy of Psychiatry),

International Association for Law and Mental Health, New York, NY, June 29,

2009.

“Screening for Mental Disorders and the Preventive State,” (panel on The Rise of the

Preventive State), International Association for Law and Mental Health, New

York, NY, June 29, 2009.

Keynote address, Canadian Bioethics Association annual conference, "The Loss Of

Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing a Normal Emotion as a Mental Disorder?”

Hamilton, Ontario. June 12, 2009.

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Keynote address, New York State Society for Clinical Social Work annual conference,

"The Loss Of Sadness: Is Normal Sadness Being Mislabeled As Depressive

Disorder?" New York, NY. May 2, 2009.

Keynote endowed lecture: The Lindemann Lecture in Human Development, The Gordon

F. Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University: "Are

We Misdiagnosing Normal Human Emotion as Clinical Depression?" Garden

City, NY. March 11, 2009.

"The Loss of Sadness: Are Normal Human Emotions being Misdiagnosed as Clinical

Depression?" Presentation of Grand Rounds to the Department of Social Work,

Sloan-Kettering Hospital, New York, NY. March 9, 2009.

“The Loss of Sadness: Is Normal Sadness being Mislabeled as Depressive Disorder?”

Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Nassau University Medical Center,

Harvard University, February 25, 2009.


Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital,

Harvard University, December 4, 2008.


Psychiatric Epidemiology Colloquium, Harvard University School of Public

Health, December 3, 2008.


Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Temple University, December 2, 2008.

“What is the Distinction between Normal Sadness and Depressive Disorder?” Workshop

on the Use of Medication in Child and Adolescent Depression, December 1, 2008.

Convened by The Hastings Center, Garrison NY. Meeting held at Rockefeller

University, New York, NY.

“The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive

Disorder.” Grand Rounds talk delivered to Washtenaw County Community

Mental Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan. October 15, 2008.

“The Age of Depression: Are We Mislabeling Normal Sadness as Depressive Disorder?”

Grand Rounds talk delivered to the Department of Psychiatry, University of

Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. October 14, 2008.

“From the Concept of Disorder to Empirical Research on Diagnostic Validity.” Talk

delivered to the School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

Michigan. October 14, 2008.

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“The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive

Disorder.” Talk delivered to the Social Work Department of the Southern

Connecticut State University, September 24, 2008.

“The Age of Depression: Is Psychiatry Misdiganosing Normal Sadness as Depressive

Disorder?” Talk delivered to the School of Human Services (Nursing,

Psychology, Marital and Family Counseling, Social Work), Southern Connecticut

State University, September 24, 2008.

“Sadness and the Meaning of Life: A Dialogue about Depression,” a paper presented as

part of a public debate with Peter Kramer, Rutgers University, March 5, 2008.

“Depression and the Concept of Disorder,” seminar presentation to the Center for Critical

Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, March 5, 2008.

“The Concept of Disorder,” presented to the Bioethics Seminar at NYU.

Keynote address: “Freud and Cognitive Science: From Cognitive Science to Conative

Science.” Conference on “The Place and Play of Theory in Social Work” at the

University of Chicago (Festschrift conference in honor of the retirement of

Sharon Berlin.) May 11, 2007.

“The test-retest reliability of psychiatric diagnoses using lay interviewers: Evidence from

the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study.” Eastern Sociological Society meeting

in Philadelphia, March 17, 2007. With M. F. Schmitz.

“Should the Bereavement Exclusion for Major Depression Be Extended to Other

Losses?” Gerontological Society of America Conference, Dallas, November 17,

2006. With A. V. Horwitz, M. F. Schmitz, and M. B. First.

“Should the Bereavement Exclusion for Major Depression Be Extended to Other

Losses?” International Conference on Social Stress, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,

October 30, 2006. With A. V. Horwitz, M. F. Schmitz, and M. B. First.

“Oedipal Complex as Power/Knowledge.” University Faculty Seminar on the Philosophy

of Psychoanalysis, Columbia University, September 25, 2006.

“Socrates’ Radical Moral Philosophy.” Raananah, NY, July 21,2006.

“The Age of Depression: Is Normal Sadness Being Misdiagnosed as Depressive

Disorder?” University Professor Inaugural lecture, NYU, April 6, 2006.

“The Concept of Biological Function.” Evolutionary Psychology Program, Florida

Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, March 20, 2006.

“Is Grief Special?: Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Medicalization of Virtue.” Institute for

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Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, February

28, 2006.

“The Sexualization of Attachment.” Conference on Attachment and Sexuality, Adelphi

University and the NY Attachment Consortium, Garden City, NY, December 3,

2005.

“The Age of Depression: Is psychiatry labeling normal sadness as mental disorder?”

Presented to NYU School of Social Work Homecoming, October 15, 2005.

“Power, Attachment, Sexuality: Rethinking Freud’s Case of Little Hans.” Psychoanalytic

Advanced Certificate Program, School of Social Work, NYU. December 10,

2004.

“The Concept of Mental Disorder and the Validity of DSM Diagnostic Criteria.” Grand

Rounds, Dept. of Psychiatry, Creedmoor State Mental Hospital, Queens Village,

New York. November 18, 2004.

“Health as Evolutionarily Designed Functioning: Rethinking the Roles of Culture,

Values, and Relationships in Diagnosis.” William Alanson White Psychoanalytic

Institute, New York. November 12, 2004.

“The DSM in Taiwan: Assessing Competency in the Cross-Cultural Diagnosis of Mental

Disorder.” presented at the International Symposium on New Trends in Social

Work Education: Social Workers' Competency Assessment and Social Work

Education, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 24, 2004.

“Evolution of Depression and the Distinction between Disordered and Nondisordered

Depression.” Presentation at a Workshop on Evolution and Depression with

George Brown, Randolph Nesse, and Allan Horwitz, at the Institute for Health

Care Policy at Rutgers, November 4, 2003.

“Conceptual foundations of social work.” Inaugural Lecture of the Theory Workshop at

the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, October 23,

2003.

“Sex, Lies, and the Concept of Mental Disorder.” Presented at the Institute for Health,

Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, April 29, 2003.

“Sex, Lies, and the Concept of Mental Disorder: From Empirical Research to Conceptual

Analysis and Back Again.” Presented at the Graduate School of Applied and

Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, April 28, 2003.

Wakefield, J. C., & Eagle, M. “How NOT to escape the Grunbaum Syndrome: A critique

of the New View in Psychoanalysis.” Presented at the University of Pittsburgh

Center for the Philosophy of Science, as one of three talks given in honor of Adolf

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Grunbaum on his 80th birthday, presented April 12, 2003.

“Sex, Lies, and the Concept of Mental Disorder: From Empirical Research to Conceptual

Analysis and Back Again.” Presented at the Ehrenkrantz School of Social Work,

New York University, March 2003..

Pottick, K.J., Wakefield, J. C., Kirk, S.A., & Tian, X. “Attributes of professionals and the

perception of mental disorder in youth.” Presented at the Sixth Annual

Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Diego, California,

Jan 17-20, 2002.

“The Concept of Mental Disorder,” New School for Social Research, Graduate faculty,

December 12, 2001.

“The Concept of Mental Disorder,” Institute for Health, April 24, 2001.

“Social Work as the Pursuit of Minimal Distributive Justice.” Presented at a national

conference, “The Kentucky Conference on the Definition of Social Work,” held at

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, February 8-10, 2001.

"The Concept of Mental Disorder: Intersection of Cognitive Universals and Cultural

Particulars." Presented at a national conference, "Toward a Sociology of Culture

and Cognition," held at Rutgers University, November 13, 1999.

"The Definition of Mental Disorder, Revised." Presented in a Symposium on "Diagnostic

Issues in the 21st Century: Issues for DSM-V," at the American Psychiatric

Association 1999 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 20, 1999.

"Evolutionary Foundations of the Concept of Mental Disorder." Presented at the Rutgers

University Center for Cognitive Studies, February 16, 1999.

"Rethinking the Prevalence of Alcohol Disorders." Presented at the UCLA School of

Public Policy, December 15, 1998.

"Community Prevalence and the Concept of Mental Disorder." Presented to the

Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program, Columbia University College of

Physicians and Surgeons, May 14, 1998.

"Assessing Antisocial Behavior in Adolescents: An Experimental Test of Whether Social

Workers Distinguish Mental Disorder from Non-disorder." Talk presented to the

International Conference on Research for Social Work Practice, annual meeting

of the Society for Social Work and Research, Florida International University,

North Miami, Florida, January 26, 1998.

"Objectivity and Psychiatric Nosology: Commentary on Ross." Talk presented to the

Conference on Values in Psychiatric Nosology, University of Texas Southwestern

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Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, December 5, 1997.

"Values and the Validity of Psychiatric Diagnostic Criteria: Disvalued Versus Disordered

Conditions of Adolescence and Childhood." Invited keynote address presented to

the Conference on Values in Psychiatric Nosology, University of Texas

Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, December 4, 1997.

"Validity of DSM-IV Criteria for Major Depressive Disorder." Talk presented to the

Postdoctoral Seminar of the Institute for health, Health Care Policy, and Aging

Research, Rutgers University, September, 1997.

"Attributions of Conduct Disorder to Antisocial Youth." Talk presented to the

Postdoctoral Seminar of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging

Research, Rutgers University, May, 1997.

"The Concept of Mental Disorder." Talk presented to the Postdoctoral Seminar of the

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University,

November, 1996.

"Distinguishing normal from mentally disordered adolescents." Talk to School of Social

Work Advisory Committee of the Board of Trustees, Oct. 22, 1996. Winants Hall,

Queens Campus, Rutgers University.

"Misrepresenting Representation." Talk presented at the symposium on "Representations

and Psychoanalysis," at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Division of

Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, New York City, April

20, 1996.

"The Undefined Profession: Social Work's Quest to Define its Mission." Invitational

Lecture presented to the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work

Education, San Diego, California, March 1995.

"Conceptual Validity and the DSM Concept of Mental Disorder: The Case of Conduct

Disorder." Talk presented to the Conference on the Status of Conduct Disorder as

a Mental Disorder, NIMH, Bethesda, Maryland, January 1995.

"Conceptual Validity of Epidemiological Criteria," presented to the Postdoctoral

Colloquium at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research,

Rutgers University, November 1994.

"Integrating Conative Science with Cognitive Science." Presented at the Symposium on

"Cognition and Psychodynamics: Experimental Approaches" at the American

Psychological Society, Sixth Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., July, 1994.

"Validity of DSM Diagnostic Criteria," presented at the Postdoctoral Colloquium of the

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University,

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April, 1994.

"Moral Dimensions of Clinical Practice: Justice, Altruism, and Acceptance," Invited

Lecture at the 75th Anniversary Symposium on Professional Ethics at the

National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic National University,

December , 1993.

"Socrates vs. Erikson on Wisdom, Love, and Generativity: Reconstructing the First

Western Theory of Adult Development," presented at the Institute of

Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October, 1993.

"Freud's Metapsychology: Conceptual Challenges for Cognitive Science," presented at

the NIMH Workshop on Cognitive Science and Psychodynamics, Bethesda,

Maryland, July, 1993.

"Disorder as Harmful Dysfunction: Rethinking the Validity of DSM-III-R Diagnostic

Criteria," presented at NIMH, Bethesda, Maryland, March, 1993.

"The Concept of Disorder and the Validity of the Epidemiological Catchment Area Study

(ECA)," presented to the Psychiatric Epidemiology Program, School of Public

Health, Columbia University, February, 1993.

"The Concept of Mental Disorder," presented to the Institute for Health, Health Care

Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, February, 1992 and to the

Graduate School of Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, April, 1991.

"Altruism and the Explanation of Human Behavior," presented at a conference on

"Altruism--the Intellectual Concept," University of Chicago, November, 1991.

"Do Unconscious Mental States Exist?", presented at the Klein-Rapaport Study Group

Conference on Ego Psychology, Stockbridge, MA, June 1991.

"Psychological Essentialism and the Nature of Prejudice," presented at a conference on

"Mental Health, Racism, and Sexism" at the Harvard University School of

Education, February, 1991.

"Heidegger and the Nature of Meaning," presented at the "Heidegger and Davidson

Conference," University of California at Santa Cruz, July, 1990.

"Levels of Explanation in Personality Theory," presented at the Conference on the Future

of Personality Theory, University of Michigan, April 1988.

"'Premature Ejaculation' and the Medical Regulation of Male Sexual Performance,"

presented at the Fishbein Center for the History of Medicine, University of

Chicago, April 1988.

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"Psychotherapy, Distributive Justice, and Social Work," presented to the Workshop on

Theory and Practice, University of Chicago, January 1988.

"Mind, Meaning, and Experience: Rethinking the Philosophical Base of Psychodynamic

Practice," presented as an Invitational Speaker at the 1986 NASW National

Conference on Clinical Social Work, San Francisco.

"Phenomenology versus Psychoanalysis: Two Approaches to Freud's Case of Little

Hans," paper presented at the American Psychological Association's National

Conference, Washington D.C., August 1986.

"Freud's Cognitive Theory of the Mind," presented to the Philosophy, Psychology, and

Counseling Departments at Illinois State University at Normal, winter 1986.

Invited Participant, "Conference on Mind, Brain, and the Unconscious," University of

Cincinatti, 1986.

"Alternative Philosophical Conceptions of Psychopathology" (jointly with H. Dreyfus)

and "Hermeneutics and Empiricism: A Reply to Donald Meichenbaum,"

presented at the "Conference on Hermeneutic Approaches in Clinical Psychology:

Alternatives to Natural Science Modes of Explanation and Understanding,"

Rutgers University, October 1985.

Invited Participant, Mercy Center Workshop on the Philosophical Foundations of Social

Work, spring 1985. (This meeting led to the founding of the Study Group for

Philosophical Issues in Social Work.)

"Lucretius on the Tragedy of Love," presented at the National Endowment for the

Humanities Summer Seminar on "The Practical Value of the Study of Ethics in

Ancient Greek Thought," Wellesley College, summer 1985.

Invited Respondent, Conference on Personality and Emotion, Boston University

Symposia on the Interdisciplinary Study of Personality, April 1985.

"Negative Effects of Sex Therapy," paper presented at the Fifth World Sexual Congress,

Washington D.C., May 1983.

"The Meanings of Sex," presentation to Conference on Human Sexuality, University of

California at Berkeley, 1983, surveying philosophical accounts of the nature of

sexuality from Plato to Foucault.

"Sexual Equality in Plato's Republic," presented at Reed College, 1982, and Stanford

University, 1983.

"Anxiety Reduction as Part of the Educational Process" and "Emotional Obstacles to

Learning," workshops presented at the Conference on Teaching Improvement,

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University of California, Berkeley, 1979-80.

"The Concept of Community," Conference on the Future of Community Work,

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1978.

"Individual, System, and the Philosophy of Social Work," presented to the Public Policy

Program, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1977.

"The Labeling Theory of Mental Illness: A Conceptual Critique," NIMH Summer

Seminar on Sociology of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1976.

GRANT FUNDING OF SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

2002-03. $37,560. Project: "Unmet Need and the Concept of Disorder: Reanalysis of

Epidemiological Prevalence Estimates." Part of "Diagnostic Assessment and Validity:

DSM-III-R/DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria," Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield.

From NIMH Center Grant PHS MH 43450-11. "The Organization and Financing of Care

for the Severely Mentally Ill," Principal Investigator, Dr. David Mechanic.

2002-03. $10,070. “Attribution of Depressive Disorder.” Institute for Health grant. Principal

Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield.






2001-02. $3,000. “Attribution of Conduct Disorder.” Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and

Aging Research grant. Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield.

2000-01. $53,000. The Spunk Fund, Inc., Grant. Principal Investigator: Jerome C. Wakefield.

"Conceptual Foundations of Child and Adolescent Diagnosis."











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1998-99. $3,000. Project: "Attribution of Disorder." Part of "Diagnostic Assessment and Validity:









1997-98. $54,950. NICHD Supplement to the Center Award. Subproject: "Conceptual Validity of

Diagnostic Criteria for Conduct Disorder." Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield.



1997-98. $17,150. Matching allocation for NICHD Supplement to Center Award.

1997-98. $6,000. Louis and Samuel Silberman Fund. "Attribution of Conduct Disorder to

Adolescents."

1997-98. $44,218. The Spunk Fund, Inc., Grant. Principal Invstigator: Jerome C. Wakefield.


1997-98. $5,000. "Attribution of Disorder." Subproject: "Diagnostic Assessment and Validity:




1996-97. $18, 234. Project: "Attribution of Disorder." Part of "Diagnostic Assessment and

Validity: DSM-III-R/DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria," Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome

Wakefield. From NIMH Center Grant PHS MH 43450-09. "The Organization and

Financing of Care for the Severely Mentally Ill," Principal Investigator, Dr. David

Mechanic.

1996-97. $18,239. Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Grant. Principal


1995-96. $15,360. Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Grant. Principal


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1995-96. $2,000. "Diagnostic Assessment and Validity: DSM-III-R/DSM-IV Diagnostic

Criteria," Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield. From NIMH Center Grant PHS

MH 43450-08 "The Organization and Financing of Care for the Severely Mentally Ill,"

Principal Investigator, Dr. David Mechanic.



MH 43450-07, "The Organization and Financing of Care for the Severely Mentally Ill,"






1992-93. $32,300. Postdoctoral Fellowship 6/15/90 to 6/14/93. From NIMH Grant PHS MH

16242, "Mental Health Services and Systems Research Training." Principal Investigator,

Dr. David Mechanic.





1992. $3,000. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship to attend an

Institute on "Ethics: Principals or Practices," led by Hubert Dreyfus and David

Hoy, at University of California at Santa Cruz.


16242, "Mental Health Services and Systems Research Training" Principal Investigator,

Dr. David Mechanic.


16242, "Mental Health Services and Systems Research Training" Principal Investigator,

Dr. David Mechanic.

1990. $3,000. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship to attend an

Institute on "Heidegger and Davidson," led by Hubert Dreyfus and David Hoy, at

University of California at Santa Cruz.

1988-89. $18,000. "Diagnosis of Substance Abuse in Adolescents," Jerome Wakefield, Principal

Investigator. From "Preventing Tobacco Use Among Native American Adolescents,"

NIMH grant 5 RO1 CA 44903, Principal Investigator Dr. Stephen Schinke.

1989-90. $20,000."Diagnosis of Substance Abuse in Adolescents," Jerome Wakefield, Principal

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Investigator. From "Preventing Tobacco Use Among Native American Adolescents,"

NIMH grant 5 RO1 CA 44903, Principal Investigator Stephen Schinke, and from

Columbia University internal research support.

1987-88. $18,000. Grant from the Joyce Foundation to plan a conference on "Altruism

and Human Nature," Principal Investigators, Jerome Wakefield, Lawrence Lynn,

and Margaret Rosenheim.

1987. $15,000. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Science at the

Institute for Cognitive Studies, University of California at Berkeley.

1985. $3,000. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship to attend a

Seminar on "The Practical Value of the Study of Ethics in Ancient Greek

Thought," led by Martha Nussbaum, Wellesley College.

1984-85. $25,000. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research

on Women, Brown University.

1976. $2,500. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship to attend a Seminar

on "Sociology of Medicine" led by Renee Fox, University of Pennsylvania.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Part-time private clinical consultation and supervision, 1984-present.

Private practice of clinical social work, 1974-84.

Clinical supervision of Masters-level Mental Health students, University of Queensland

(1976-78) and San Diego State University (1978-79).

Counselor, Union College, University of Queensland, 1976-78.

Clinical research on mathephobia, University of Queensland, 1976-78.

Staff Therapist, Cowell Hospital Sex Therapy Clinic, University of California, Berkeley,

1975-76.

Clinical Social Worker, Berkeley Community Mental Health, 1974-75.

Supervisor, Berkeley Peer Counseling Project, 1974-75.

Psychiatric Social Work Intern, Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser-Permanente Hospital,

Santa Clara, California, 1973-74.

Clinical License: Licensed Clinical Social Worker, State of New Jersey (inactive since

move to New York)

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REVIEWS, MEDIA APPEARANCES, AND MEDIA/PRESS COVERAGE

MOST RECENT MEDIA

Interviewed for an article on Prolonged Grief Disorder to appear in the Science Section of

Weekendavisen (The Weekend Newspaper), a Danish national weekly newspaper.

Reporter: Anne Jensen Sand, interview August 31, 2018.

Article in UBNow about my visit to University at Buffalo to give a keynote address on

addiction: “The nation’s leading philosopher of psychiatry will deliver a keynote address

on the nature of addiction at this year’s Romanell Conference, a three-day event

exploring bioethics and the philosophy of medicine presented by UB’s Department of

Philosophy. Jerome Wakefield, a professor in New York University’s Silver School of

Social Work and a professor of the conceptual foundations of psychiatry in NYU’s

School of Medicine, will discuss such issues as whether all addictions are diseases and

whether all mental diseases are brain diseases.”

(The article displays a conference poster of me analyzing Freud:)

https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2018/07/romanell-philosophy-conference.html

Radio Interview on WBFO “All Things Considered” in Buffalo, NY on various mental

health issues. Article online: “Prominent philosopher shares thoughts on mental health

and addiction.” Audio recording:

http://news.wbfo.org/post/prominent-philosopher-shares-thoughts-mental-health-and-

addiction

Blumenfeld, M., with information supplied by Wakefield, J. C. “Death by Conjunction:

The Power of a Word.” Binah Magazine, December 1, 2014, pp. 40-44.

Quoted at length in Allen Frances’s Psychology Today blog

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201301/last-plea-dsm-5-save-

grief-the-drug-companies

Quoted in The Washington Post, “Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists

with ties to drug industry say yes.” By Peter Whoriskey, December 26, 2012.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/antidepressants-to-treat-grief-

psychiatry-panelists-with-ties-to-drug-industry-say-yes/2012/12/26/ca09cde6-3d60-11e2-

ae43-cf491b837f7b_print.html

Quoted in Mediapart (Paris; in French), December 20, 2012, in an article on Newtown,

“Aux USA, la tuerie de Newtown pose la question des moyens de la psychiatrie” by Iris

Deroeux

Quoted in The New York Times, “A Tense Compromise on Defining Disorders,”

Benedict Carey, p D1, December 1, 2102.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201301/last-plea-dsm-5-save-grief-the-drug-companies

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201301/last-plea-dsm-5-save-grief-the-drug-companies

http://www.mediapart.fr/article/offert/df61de4d6f67c63c9b78a6e52f768ce2

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/health/a-compromise-on-defining-and-diagnosing-

mental-disorders.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

NPR, “All Things Considered,” interview aired Dec 6, 2012.

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166682774/psychiatrists-to-take-new-approach-in-

bereavement

Salon, August 8th 2012, review of “All We Have to Fear”: Andrew Scull, “Psychiatry’s

Legitimacy Crisis.”

Los Angeles Review of Books, August 8th 2012, review of “All We Have to Fear”:

Andrew Scull, “Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis.”

The Atlantic, August 1, 2012, cited in Lindsey Abrams, “Is Anxiety Overdiagnosed?”

Reuters News Service, July 13, 2012, quoted in Sharon Begley, “In the Age of Anxiety,

Are We All Mentally Ill?”

Fox News, July 13, 2012, quoted in “In the Age of Anxiety, Are We All Mentally Ill?”

CNBC, July 13, 2012, quoted in “In the Age of Anxiety, Are we All Mentally ill?”

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48171729

Chicago Tribune, Health section, July 13, 2012, quoted in “In the Age of Anxiety, Are

We All Mentally Ill?”

Boston Globe, July 9, 2012, quoted in Deborah Kotz, “Nearly 1 in 12 teens has anger

disorder, Harvard study finds.”

American Psychological Association Monitor, quoted in “The Roots of Mental Illness:

How Much Can the Biology of the Brain Explain?” by Kirsten Weir.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/06/roots.aspx

Salon, June 2, 2-12, “Our New era of Anxiety,” abridged version of chapter 1 of All We

Have to Fear.

Guest on WNYC Public Radio Show, “The Takeaway,” May 21, 2012 (International

audience), with John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee, on “Can Bereavement be a

Mental Illness.”

New York Magazine, The Intelligencer, May 13, 2012, quoted in a story on the DSM-5:

“Crazy Sad: The Madness of Panthologizing Grief,” by Jerry Adler.

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/grief-2012-5/

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166682774/psychiatrists-to-take-new-approach-in-bereavement

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166682774/psychiatrists-to-take-new-approach-in-bereavement

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48171729

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/06/roots.aspx

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Washington Post, May 5, 2012, quoted in story on the DSM-5: Updates to psychiatric

guide spur controversy, by Nurith C. Aizenman.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/updates-to-psychiatric-guide-

spur-controversy/2012/05/05/gIQATSbJ4T_story.html (on p. 2)

CBS Sunday Morning News with Charles Osgood, segment on “depression.” Shown

March 18, 2012.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57399521/examining-the-broad-reach-of-

depression/?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel

NEW YORK TIMES: My work reported in a front-page story by Ben Carey on DSM-5,

depression, and bereavement, January 26, 2012.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/health/depressions-criteria-may-be-changed-to-

include-grieving.html?_r=1&hpw

Carey B. Grief could join list of disorders. New York Times, January 25, 2012, p. A1.

The paper that triggered the Times article can be accessed here (also linked to NY Times

article):

http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/pdf/wakefield.pdf

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS. Interviewed for a story by Ann

Thompson, January 26, 2012.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46139462/#46139462

FILM: "MALADIES À VENDRE"/"BRANDING ILLNESS", interviewed in the film

about pharmaceutical company strategies in mental health, produced by Mikkel Borch-

Jacobson (2011).

NPR RADIO LOS ANGELES, January 26, 2012, The Patt Morrison Program,

Southern California Public Radio - NPR Affiliate for Los Angeles. 89.3 KPCC-FM

http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2012/01/26/22268/should-grief-be-included-

in-a-diagnostic-list-of-d/

Frances, A., & Wakefield, J. C. (2012). Don’t confuse grief with depression. Huffington

Post, January 26, 2012. (This was an interview that was extensively directly quoted. My

name is not on the masthead because it was Allen Frances’s column, at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dont-confuse-grief-with-d_b_1233883.html

NPR RADIO Seattle, interview, February 2, 2012.

Monocle 24 Radio, interview, February 1, 2012.

RECENT

“NEUROSKEPTIC” 2-part WEB BLOG about my work:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/updates-to-psychiatric-guide-spur-controversy/2012/05/05/gIQATSbJ4T_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/updates-to-psychiatric-guide-spur-controversy/2012/05/05/gIQATSbJ4T_story.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57399521/examining-the-broad-reach-of-depression/?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57399521/examining-the-broad-reach-of-depression/?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/health/depressions-criteria-may-be-changed-to-include-grieving.html?_r=1&hpw

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/health/depressions-criteria-may-be-changed-to-include-grieving.html?_r=1&hpw

http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/pdf/wakefield.pdf

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46139462/#46139462

http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2012/01/26/22268/should-grief-be-included-in-a-diagnostic-list-of-d/

http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2012/01/26/22268/should-grief-be-included-in-a-diagnostic-list-of-d/

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http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/03/depressed-or-bereaved-part-1.html


CNN Beliefs Blog, January 17, 2011: Article by Michael First and Jerome Wakefield,

“Our Take: Is alleged Arizona shooter evil or mentally ill?” Coauthored with Michael

First.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/our-take-is-alleged-arizona-shooter-evil-or-

mentally-ill/#comments

Wall Street Journal January 15, 2011: Quoted in Carl Bialik’s online commentary on

his column on numbers, in a story on how difficult it is to measure how many people

have mental disorders, “Who Has Mental Disorders: It’s Hard to Say.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959104576081920430619618.html

Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2011: Quoted extensively in an article by Carl Bialik,

“How many people suffer from mental illness?

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/how-many-people-suffer-from-mental-illness-1025/#

Superinteressante (Brazilian magazine equivalent of Wired), interviewed by Willian

Vieira for story on changes in DSM-5.

BBC Radio 4: Debate on the prevalence of mental disorder in Britain on BBC radio

show, “All in the Mind,” with British psychiatrist Til Wykes, moderated by Fiona Hill.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00wqd1w/All_in_the_Mind_21_12_2010

Brad Lewis. “Madness Studies” (Review of Loss of Sadness and three other recent

books.) Literature and Medicine, Volume 28, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 152-171

Guardian: Discussion of my work in: How true is the one-in-four mental health statistic?

Jamie Horder, April 24, 2010, guardian.co.uk:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/24/one-in-four-mental-health-

statistic

NYU Research Newsletter. “Silver School of Social Work Researcher Confirms Over-

Diagnosis of Depression.” By Robert Polner. Article about the implications of my

“clinical significance” article in American Journal of Psychiatry.

World Magazine: several quotes in “Hoarders Beware”, April 10, 2010 (v.25 no 7) by

Daniel James Devine, http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16573

Medscape: Clinical Significance Criterion for Major Depression Does Not Reduce



http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/our-take-is-alleged-arizona-shooter-evil-or-mentally-ill/

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/how-many-people-suffer-from-mental-illness-1025/

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False-Positive Diagnoses by Pam Harrison. Article about my recently published study on

clinical significance of depression in American Journal of Psychiatry. Posted 3/23/2010.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/719062

New York Times Magazine: mention in “Depression’s Upside” by Jonah Lehrer,

February 28, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-

t.html?pagewanted=all

The New Yorker Magazine, March 1, 2010 edition: 2 paragraph mention in Head

Case: Can psychiatry be a science? by Louis Menand, A paragraph about Loss of

Sadness. at:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/01/100301crat_atlarge_menand?c

urrentPage=all#ixzz0gH4eUkhf

RT-TV Television Interview on changes proposed to dsm-v (Uploaded to UTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/3/u2u7aGvNljk

Starts 6 minutes 20 seconds into show—scroll right)

Quoted front page Washington Post in DSM5 article

Medical News Today: NYU Study Finds Psychiatry's Main Method To Prevent Mistaken

Diagnoses Of Depression Doesn't Work. Article about my recently published study on

clinical significance of depression in American Journal of Psychiatry.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/180412.php

REVIEWS—Selected Scholarly and Major Media Reviews of Loss of Sadness

Gilbert, Steven, in Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. (2009) Review of: The

Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder.

v.23, Issue 1 January 2009.

Whitaker, Leighton C. in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. (2009) Review of:

The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive

Disorder. Springer. Accessed 2-15-10 at

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7530/is_200904/ai_n35627621/?tag=content;col1

Jessica Marshall, Review in the Sun Sentinel—Boca Raton Forum section, 11-11-09,

“Woes be gone: A healthy dose of sadness may be good for you.”

Ruth F. G. Williams. Review Article: Everyday Sorrows are not Mental Disorders: The

Clash between Psychiatry and Western Cultural Habits. Prometheus, Vol. 27, No. 1,

March 2009

Bolton, Derek. Review of "The Loss of Sadness." The British Journal of Psychiatry

(2009) 194: 471-472.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/louis_menand/search?contributorName=louis%20menand

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/01/100301crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all#ixzz0gH4eUkhf

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/01/100301crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all#ixzz0gH4eUkhf

http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/3/u2u7aGvNljk

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/180412.php

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New York Review of Books, December 6, 2007 (Review of “Loss of Sadness” and two

other books on depression, by Frederick Crews):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20851

The Lancet – September 8, 2007:

http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:aJ2KG0RVSC8J:www.soteria.freeuk.com/Turning

sadness.pdf+Lancet+wakefield+depression&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us&client=firef

ox-a

The Clinical Psychologist. Recommended Book review by Keith Dobson, summer 2008.

American Journal of Psychiatry:

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/164/11/1764

New England Journal of Medicine –August 30:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/357/9/947

British Medical Journal – review – January 26, 2008

Psychiatric Services 59: 697 June 2008 by Susanna Quasem, M.D. and Allan Chrisman,

M.D.

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/59/6/697?etoc&eaf

Psychological Medicine – review by Kenneth Kendler November 8, 2007

Times Literary Supplement – review March 14, 2008.

PsycCRITIQUES by Brian Stagner 2008 53 (9)

Acta Neuropsychiatrica

Michael Robertson, Volume 20 Issue 3 Page 168-169, June 2008

German Journal of Psychiatry, vol 11 (2008) supplement 1, p. 83, by Saxby Pridmore

http://www.gjpsy.uni-goettingen.de/

Metapsychology Online Reviews, Ian Jakobi

http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=3875&cn=394

History of Psychiatry review by Richard Tranter, 2009; 20; 109

Pharmacy Choice, “Woe be gone,” review 1/17/09.

Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol. 30, No. 3. (April 2008), pp. 484-486. by Joan

Busfield

Contemporary Sociology, V. 37, Number 5, September 2008, pp. 477-478.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20851

http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:aJ2KG0RVSC8J:www.soteria.freeuk.com/Turningsadness.pdf+Lancet+wakefield+depression&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us&client=firefox-a



http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/164/11/1764

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/357/9/947

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/59/6/697?etoc&eaf

http://www.gjpsy.uni-goettingen.de/

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Psychiatric Times, May 1, 2008 vol 25 no. 6, by Randolph Nesse

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/1158549

Skeptical Inquirer – review – September 1

The New Republic February 27, 2008. Featured review by Sally Satel.

http://www.powells.com/review/2008_02_14.html

The Times of London –December 3, 2007.

Business Day (UK) – review April 17, 2008

New English Review: An Ill For Every Pill by Theodore Dalrymple (March 2008)

Reason Magazine – review – December ‘07

Doody’s Reviews (England) , May, 2008.

Nonfiction.fr: Le Portail des Livres et des Idees (France) review April 14, 2008

Library Journal – review – June 15

New York Post – review – June 3

The Spectator “Running for Shelter” by Anthony Daniels 15 March 2008 (“The Loss of

Sadness is one of the most important books in the field of psychiatry published in the last

few years.)

Nursing Standard by Greta McGough March 12 2008 22 (27) p. 31

Utne Reader review, Embracing the Blues, Julie Hanus.

http://www.utne.com/2008-04-08/Science-Technology/Embracing-the-Blues.aspx

School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) Magazine, Rutgers New Brunswick, by the Henry E

Sigerest Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus Gerald Grob

The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2007, by Ben Gore

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/07/books/nonfiction-the-taxonomy-of-melancholy

Irish Independent, December 3, 2007, by Anjana Ahuja:

http://www.independent.ie/health/doctor-we-dont-need-a-pill-for-every-ill-1245469.html

Time Magazine – Health and Medicine page story – August 27, 2007

Spiked Review of Books (London), February 29, 2008

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/1158549

http://www.powells.com/review/2008_02_14.html

http://www.utne.com/2008-04-08/Science-Technology/Embracing-the-Blues.aspx

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/07/books/nonfiction-the-taxonomy-of-melancholy

http://www.independent.ie/health/doctor-we-dont-need-a-pill-for-every-ill-1245469.html

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Reading Undeterred, Review May 26 2009,

http://readingundeterred.blogspot.com/2009/05/loss-of-sadness-how-psychiatry.html

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on November 27, 2005 (review of article in Public

Policy. The Great Depression by Will Wilkinson (a policy analyst at the Cato Institute).

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5222

ALL OTHER PRINT

Financial Times.com, quoted in “Why sadness is good for you” By Stephen Pincock,

Published: November 13 2009

U.S. News & World Report, quoted in “Should You Take Antidepressants for Money

Worries?” by Deborah Kotz, January 21, 2009

Science News, quoted in an article “Rates of common mental disorders double up” by

Bruce Bowers, September 2009.

Business Week, quoted in an article on anxiety and depression in business leaders by

Patricia Pearson, August 13, 2009.

Montel Williams’ book, Living Well Emotionally (2009), quoted and my work described.

CQ: The Congressional Quarterly Researcher—interviewed for issue on depression by

Marcia Clemmett, 5/14/09—published June 2009.

California Nursing Association Newsletter – interviewed by Matt Isaacs 4-09

New Scientist – story January 17, 2009

Psychiatric Times, December 2008, pp. 12-13, editorial.

American Journal of Psychiatry, 2008, V. 165, pp. 1373-1375, editorial.

Psychology Today http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20081215-000001.html

- mention.

London Daily Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4240157/Sadness

-is-good-for-you-scientists-say.html - story

London Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1116556/Feeling-blue-

Stop-worrying--depression-good-say-scientists.html?ITO=1490 - story

http://readingundeterred.blogspot.com/2009/05/loss-of-sadness-how-psychiatry.html

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20081215-000001.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4240157/Sadness-is-good-for-you-scientists-say.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4240157/Sadness-is-good-for-you-scientists-say.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1116556/Feeling-blue-Stop-worrying--depression-good-say-scientists.html?ITO=1490

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1116556/Feeling-blue-Stop-worrying--depression-good-say-scientists.html?ITO=1490

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Germany: Interviewed for German newsmagazine Focus: Silvia Sanides, science

reported.

Brazil: O Estado de S.Paulo, December 2007, reprint of Fred Crews article from NY

Review of books.

US News & World Report: story

http://www.usnews.com/mobile/blogs/on-women/2009/1/21/should-you-take-

antidepressants-for-money-worries.html

UK: The Guardian (UK)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/17/mental-health-research

New York Times, column, September 16, 2008, F5.

The Australian, interview, June 4, 2008.

Epoca Negocios (Brazil), - story and interview March 13, 2008

http://epocanegocios.globo.com/Revista/Epocanegocios/0,,EDG82136-8378-13-

1,00.html

VEJA Magazine (Brazil )- March, 2008 http://veja.abril.com.br/060208/p_068.shtml

The New Republic – review – February 27, 2008

Newsweek – story – February 5, 2008

The Wall Street Journal – interview – January 4, 2008

De Volkskrant (Netherlands) – interview – December 22, 2007

The Week – mention – December 21

The Independent (Dublin) – review December 13, 2007

The Philadelphia Inquirer – op-ed by authors – December 9

Daily Mail (London) – story December 4, 2007

The Times of London – review December 3, 2007

The Globe (Croatia) – interview December, 2007

Epoca Magazine (Brazil) – story September 11, 2007

http://saudealternativa.org/2007/09/11/tristeza-nao-e-doenca/

http://veja.abril.com.br/060208/p_068.shtml

http://saudealternativa.org/2007/09/11/tristeza-nao-e-doenca/

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Time – story – August 27, 2007

Palm Beach Post – Q&A – August 1

U.S. News & World Report – interview – July 30

New York Post – mention in op-ed – June 29

Jet Magazine – interview – tk

Washington Post – article – April 3

New York Times – article – April 3

ScienceDaily Science News, “High Percentages Of Depression Have Been Greatly

Exaggerated,” Mar. 6, 2006. (report on the Contexts article)

TV/Radio

Television

NBC Today, Featured Story

ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, Featured Story

The Agenda with Steve Paikan (One-Hour Canadian Public Affairs Programming)

http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779086&ts=200

7-12-17%2020:00:15.0

Sweden: Interviewed for popular Science television program ”the Science magazine”

(Vetenskapsmagasinet) at the National Public Television in Stockholm Sweden, by

science reporter Sharon Jama.

Television documentary: The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)

(TV) (as Dr. Jerome Wakefield) .... Himself, directed by Adam Curtis for the BBC.

Vogue Magazine, Health Matters, 1987:

Radio

Irish radio station i105-107, web address is www.i105107.ie, interview on “Loss of

Sadness.” April 30, 2009.

http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779086&ts=2007-12-17%2020:00:15.0

http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779086&ts=2007-12-17%2020:00:15.0

http://www.i105107.ie/

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Radio: Appeared in the BBC radio broadcast “Case Study” in the fourth and final

episode, in Freud’s case of Little Hans.

New Zealand: radio interview on MORE FM: Simon Barnett and Gary McCormick 6 -

10am weekdays number 1 morning show. 2/23/09

National Public Radio, “Talk of the Nation” - interview – February 14, 2008

BBC Radio2 – “The Chris Evans Show” – live by phone, December 4, 2007

Australia: ABC radio Australia, Interview and call-in show, 1 hour, January 16, 2009.

The People’s Pharmacy (Public Radio)

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/archives/radio_shows/641_the_loss_of_sadness.php

Wisconsin Public Radio, “To the Best of Our Knowledge” – taped interview – December

16

http://www.wpr.org/book/071216a.html

Mars Hill Audio

WHYY-FM (Philadelphia NPR), ““RadioTimes with Marty Moss-Coane” – live by

phone – January 2

http://www.whyy.org/cgi-bin/newwebRTsearcher.cgi

WHAD-FM (Wisconsin Public Radio), “At Issues with Ben Merens” – live by phone –

April 3 (Wakefield)

http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=bme&StartRow=1&ke

yword=wakefield&highlight=on&x=7&y=7

Australia: Late Night Live (24 March 2008) with Phillip Adams

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2008/2193584.htm

NPR: Talk of the Nation, February 14, 2008

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19008602

Other TV/Radio

Washington Post Radio – live on air – April 3 (Wakefield)


April 3 (Wakefield ABC News, “20/20” – interview with Wakefield – air date tk

KGNU-FM (Denver, Boulder), “Thursday Call-in Show” – live by phone – August 9

“The People’s Pharmacy” (syndicated) – live – July 14

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/archives/radio_shows/641_the_loss_of_sadness.php

http://www.wpr.org/book/071216a.html

http://www.whyy.org/cgi-bin/newwebRTsearcher.cgi

http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=bme&StartRow=1&keyword=wakefield&highlight=on&x=7&y=7

http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=bme&StartRow=1&keyword=wakefield&highlight=on&x=7&y=7

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2008/2193584.htm

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CFMJ-AM 640 (Toronto), “Bynon’s Toronto Weekend” – live by phone – April 8

(Wakefield)


April 3 (Wakefield)

Radio New Zealand: Books on Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, May 3, 2008; “Loss of

Sadness”reviewed.

http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=bme&StartRow=1&ke

yword=wakefield&highlight=on&x=7&y=7

CHML Radio (Hamilton, Ontario), “Health Matters” – live by phone – April 5

CHQR AM 770 (Calgary), “The World Tonight with Bob Breakenridge” – live interview

– April 4 (Wakefield)

GreenStone Media, “Women Aloud” – live interview – April 4 (Wakefield)

WILL (Illinois Public Radio) interview April 24, 2008

Australian Public Radio – interview March 17, 2008

National Public Radio, “Talk of the Nation” - interview – February 14, 2008

Wisconsin Public Radio, “To the Best of Our Knowledge” – taped interview – December

16

WHYY-FM (Philadelphia NPR), ““RadioTimes with Marty Moss-Coane” – live by

phone – January 2

Irish Public Radio – “Weekend Newstalk” – live by phone, December 16, 2007

BBC Radio2 – “The Chris Evans Show” – live by phone, December 4, 2007

ABC News, “20/20” – interview with Wakefield – air date tk

KGNU-FM (Denver, Boulder), “Thursday Call-in Show” – live by phone – August 9

“The People’s Pharmacy” (syndicated) – live – July 14

CFMJ-AM 640 (Toronto), “Bynon’s Toronto Weekend” – live by phone – April 8


April 3

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CHML Radio (Hamilton, Ontario), “Health Matters” – live by phone – April 5

CHQR AM 770 (Calgary), “The World Tonight with Bob Breakenridge” – live interview

– April 4

GreenStone Media, “Women Aloud” – live interview – April 4

Washington Post Radio – live on air – April 3

Service and Teaching -- NYU

University Service:

Undergraduate Academic Advisory Committee, 2011-present.

University Professor Appointment Review Committee, 2011.

Chair, Dean’s Search Committee for Silver School of Social Work (2008-2009)

Member, Advisory Committee for NYU 2031: Strategy for Growth (2010-2011)

Member, Humanities Initiative Fellowship Award Committee (2010).

Member, Provost’s Advisory Committee on Academic Priorities (2006-2008,

2009-2010)

Member, McSilver Poverty Institute Planning Committee. (2009)

Member, Re-engineering II Advisory Committee (2009)

Member, University Professor appointment review committee (2007)

International Service:

International: Fellow, College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis

International: Reviewer for Université Libre de Bruxelles, Fundamental Research

Program Centers of Excellence 2010 – 2015 (2010)

International: Reviewer for Wellcome Trust grant application.

International: Editorial Board, Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (Pub. In

Italian: Psicoterapia e scienze umane) (2002-present)

International Honorary Editorial Advisory Board, Mens Sana Monographs, India.

International Advisory Board, International Network for Philosophy and

Psychiatry (2007-present)

International: WHO Conference Expert Group on the Public Health Implications

of the Definition of Mental Disorder, World Health Organization

Conference on Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification;

Member (2008-present)

Courses Taught:

International Perspectives on Depression, Mental Disorder, and Psychiatric

Epidemiology (taught at NYU Paris)

Depression, Conceptual and Clinical Issues

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Critical Analysis of Psychotherapy Theories

Philosophy of Science (doctoral seminar)

Clinical Theory and Research (doctoral seminar)

Plato and Freud on Love and Sexuality (Freshman Honors Seminar)

Silver School of Social Work Service:

Chair, Dean’s Search Committee for Silver School of Social Work (2008-2009)

Chair, Curriculum Renewal Committee (2005-2006)

Member, McSilver Poverty Institute Planning Committee. (2009)

Member, Academic Integrity Committee. (2007-2009)

Organizer, Junior Faculty Mentoring and Scholarly Writing Group (2005-2006)

Development of Study Abroad Program in Paris

National Service:

Editorial Board, Evolutionary Psychology. (2006-present)

Editorial Board, Clinical Social Work Journal (current)

National Advisory Board, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy

Integration (1994-Current)

Founding Fellow, Council for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health

Elected Member, Rapaport-Klein Study Group in Ego Psychology

Book reviewer for Oxford Press Psychiatry Division.

Poster Session Award Committee, NCRG Gambling Disorder and Addiction

conference, Las Vegas November 2010.

National and International doctoral dissertation committee advising.

Dissertations completed in 2009:

Vivian Santiago, Psychiatric Epidemiology Program, Columbia

University: “Constructs, course, and contexts: An examination of

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as a Harmful-

Dysfunction” (Sharon Schwartz, Chair)

Jon Lindstrom, University of Oslo, Philosophy (Bioethics): “Carving

mental disorder at the joints: An essay in the philosophy of

psychopathology” (Olav Gjelsvik, Chair)

Thesis consulting on vignette methodology to Kimberly Glazier, Yeshiva

University clinical psychology doctoral program.

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