Paula Joan Caplan, Pioneering Psychologist Passes

Paula Caplan, a pioneering psychologist who exposed how her profession had pathologized a wide range of female traits and social responsibilities, including motherhood, mens-truation and even shopping, died on July 21 at her home in Rockville, Md. She was 74. Her daughter, Emily Stephenson, said the cause was metastatic melanoma. Starting in the late 1970s, Dr. Caplan merged a [...]