Barbara S. Held

Barbara S. Held
Alma materDouglass College
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Occupation(s)Barry N. Wish Research Professor of Psychology and Social Studies, Bowdoin College

Barbara S. Held is the Barry N. Wish Research Professor of Psychology and Social Studies Emerita[1] at Bowdoin College in the fields of clinical psychology and theoretical/philosophical psychology. She served as President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Division 24) from 2008 to 2009, and was recipient of the 2012 Joseph B. Glitter Award from the American Psychological Association recognizing her "scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge."[2]

Held is author of several books including Back to Reality: A Critique of Postmodern Theory in Psychotherapy (1995),[3][4] Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching: A 5-Step Guide to Creative Complaining (2001),[5] Psychology's Interpretive Turn: The Search for Truth and Agency in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (2007).[6][7] She is co-editor of the volumes Humanity's Dark Side: Evil, Destructive Experience, and Psychotherapy (2013)[8][9] and Rational Intuition: Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations (2015).[10]

  1. ^ "Psychology: Barbara S. Held". Bowdoin. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  2. ^ "Joseph B. Gittler Award - American Psychological Foundation". 9 March 2023.
  3. ^ Held, Barbara S. (1995). Back to reality : a critique of postmodern theory in psychotherapy (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0393701921. OCLC 32272307.
  4. ^ Cohen, Mariam (1996). "Back to Reality: A Critique of Postmodern Theory in Psychotherapy by Barbara S. Held (Book Review)". Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. 24 (3): 563–574.
  5. ^ Held, Barbara S. (2001). Stop smiling, start kvetching : a 5-step guide to creative complaining (1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0312283512. OCLC 47142054.
  6. ^ Held, Barbara S. (2007). Psychology's interpretive turn : the search for truth and agency in theoretical and philosophical psychology (1st ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ISBN 9781591479253. OCLC 77270966.
  7. ^ Erwin, Edward (2009-09-30). "Review Essay: Which Way Psychology? A Discussion of Barbara". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 40 (2): 291–310. doi:10.1177/0048393109345669. ISSN 0048-3931. S2CID 144016393.
  8. ^ Bohart, Arthur C., Held, Barbara S., Mendelowitz, Edward, Schneider, Kirk J. (2013). Humanity's dark side : evil, destructive experience, and psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ISBN 9781433811814. OCLC 795687202.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Quinn, Adam (2013). "Review of Humanity's dark side: Evil, destructive experience, and psychotherapy". The Humanistic Psychologist. 41 (3): 304–308. doi:10.1080/08873267.2013.771120. ISSN 1547-3333.
  10. ^ Osbeck, Lisa M., Held, Barbara S. (2014-08-25). Rational intuition : philosophical roots, scientific investigations. New York, NY. ISBN 9781107022393. OCLC 867851585.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)