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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)
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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
http://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/03/30/neuroethics-symposium-special-issue-
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
http://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/03/30/neuroethics-symposium-special-issue-
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.
236. Wakefield, J. C. (2014). DSM-5 Changes and controversies: The headline news, part
2. Intersections in Practice 2014 (pp. 16-19). Washington, DC: National
Association of Social Workers.
235. Wakefield, J. C. (2014). DSM-5 Changes and controversies: The headline news, part
1. Intersections in Practice 2014 (pp. 12-15). 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.
229. Wakefield, J. C. (2014). DSM-5 Changes and controversies: The headline news, part
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.
223. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). DSM-5 Changes and controversies: The headline news, part
2. Private Practice: NASW Specialty Practice Sections Newsletter, fall 2013, 2-6.
222. Wakefield, J. C. (2013). DSM-5 Changes and controversies: The headline news, part
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
Scandinavica, 128, 92-93.
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
Scandinavica, 127, 159-168.
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).
190. 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 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).
189. 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 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).
188. 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 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
Psychiatry, 53, 130-139.
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.
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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
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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).
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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.
104. Wakefield, J.C. (2005). Does social work need the eco-systems perspective?: Part 1.
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
Psychiatry, 159, 380-386.
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,
Psychiatry, and Psychology, 7, 253-270.
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,
Psychiatry, and Psychology, 7, 17-44.
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
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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
Psychology, 41, 646-652.
42. Wakefield, J.C. (1996). Does social work need the eco-systems perspective?: Part 2.
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
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40. Wakefield, J.C. (1996). Does social work need the eco-systems perspective?: Part 1.
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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:
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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
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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
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22. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). Freud and the intentionality of affect. Psychoanalytic
Psychology, 9, 1-23.
21. Wakefield, J. C. (1992). Is private practice a proper form of social work? In E.
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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:
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
Wakefield, J. C. "Conceptual and ethical issues in the definition, classification, and
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.
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 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.
Wakefield, J. C. “Mastering the DSM-5: Changes, Controversies, and Parts Unknown.”
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.
Wakefield, J. C. “Mastering the DSM-5: Changes, Controversies, and Parts Unknown.”
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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.
“The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Intense Normal Sadness as Depressive
Disorder?” Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn New York,
January 27, 2010.
“The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Intense Normal Sadness as Depressive
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.
“The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Intense Normal Sadness as Depressive
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.
“The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Intense Normal Sadness as Depressive
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.
“The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Intense Normal Sadness as Depressive
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.
“The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Intense Normal Sadness as Depressive
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.
“The Loss of Sadness: Is Normal Sadness being Mislabeled as Depressive Disorder?”
Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard University, December 4, 2008.
“The Loss of Sadness: Is Normal Sadness being Mislabeled as Depressive Disorder?”
Psychiatric Epidemiology Colloquium, Harvard University School of Public
Health, December 3, 2008.
“The Loss of Sadness: Is Normal Sadness being Mislabeled as Depressive Disorder?”
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. $35,260. 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.
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."
2000-01. $9,200. 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.
1999-00. $50,000. The Spunk Fund, Inc., Grant. Principal Investigator: Jerome C. Wakefield.
"Conceptual Foundations of Child and Adolescent Diagnosis."
1999-00. $7,000. 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.
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From NIMH Center Grant PHS MH 43450-11. "The Organization and Financing of Care
for the Severely Mentally Ill," Principal Investigator, Dr. David Mechanic.
1998-99. $53,000. The Spunk Fund, Inc., Grant. Principal Investigator: Jerome C. Wakefield.
"Conceptual Foundations of Child and Adolescent Diagnosis."
1998-99. $3,000. 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 43450-11. "The Organization and Financing of Care
for the Severely Mentally Ill," Principal Investigator, Dr. David Mechanic.
1998-99. $17,025. 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.
1997-98. $54,950. NICHD Supplement to the Center Award. Subproject: "Conceptual Validity of
Diagnostic Criteria for Conduct Disorder." Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield.
From NIMH Center Grant PHS MH 43450-10. "The Organization and Financing of Care
for the Severely Mentally Ill," Principal Investigator, Dr. David Mechanic.
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.
"Conceptual Foundations of Child and Adolescent Diagnosis."
1997-98. $5,000. "Attribution of Disorder." Subproject: "Diagnostic Assessment and Validity:
DSM-III-R/DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria," Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield.
From NIMH Center Grant PHS MH 43450-10. "The Organization and Financing of Care
for the Severely Mentally Ill," Principal Investigator, Dr. David Mechanic.
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
Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield.
1995-96. $15,360. Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Grant. Principal
Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield.
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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.
1994-95. $25,964. "Diagnostic Assessment and Validity: DSM-III-R/DSM-IV Diagnostic
Criteria," Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield. From NIMH Center Grant PHS
MH 43450-07, "The Organization and Financing of Care for the Severely Mentally Ill,"
Principal Investigator, Dr. David Mechanic.
1993-94. $38,500. "Diagnostic Assessment and Validity: DSM-III-R/DSM-IV Diagnostic
Criteria," Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield. From NIMH Center Grant PHS
MH 43450-06, "The Organization and Financing of Care for the Severely Mentally Ill,"
Principal Investigator, Dr. David Mechanic.
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.
1992-93. $7,555. "Diagnostic Assessment and Validity: DSM-III-R/DSM-IV Diagnostic
Criteria," Principal Investigator, Dr. Jerome Wakefield. From NIMH Center Grant PHS
MH 43450-05, "The Organization and Financing of Care for the Severely Mentally Ill,"
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.
1991-92. $31,500. 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.
1990-91. $30,000. 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.
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.
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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/
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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:
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http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/03/depressed-or-bereaved-part-1.html
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/03/depressed-or-bereaved-part-2.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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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/
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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.
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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)
WHAD-FM (Wisconsin Public Radio), “At Issues with Ben Merens” – live by phone –
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
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CFMJ-AM 640 (Toronto), “Bynon’s Toronto Weekend” – live by phone – April 8
(Wakefield)
WHAD-FM (Wisconsin Public Radio), “At Issues with Ben Merens” – live by phone –
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
WHAD-FM (Wisconsin Public Radio), “At Issues with Ben Merens” – live by phone –
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.