Bio
Dana Becker is Research Professor Emerita at the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She currently teaches in the doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice. With a doctorate in psychology and a master’s degree in social work, she has been an equal-opportunity critic of both fields.She has explored the effects of the therapeutic culture, its practices and discourses, on women in the US. These themes are explored in her books,Through the Looking Glass: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder (Westview Press, 1997), and The Myth of Empowerment: Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America (NYU Press, 2005). Her most recent book, One Nation under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea (Oxford University Press, 2014), tackles the effects of the therapeutic culture through examination of the ideological work currently performed by the stress concept. Dr. Becker’s work has received awards from the American Psychological Association women’s division.
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Publications
Books
Becker, D. (2013). One nation under stress: The trouble with stress as an idea. New York: Oxford University Press.
Becker, D. (2005). The myth of empowerment: Women and the therapeutic culture in America. New York: NYU Press.
Becker, D. (1997). Through the looking glass: Women and borderline personality disorder. Boulder: Westview Press.
Becker, D. (2005). The myth of empowerment: Women and the therapeutic culture in America. New York: NYU Press.
Becker, D. (1997). Through the looking glass: Women and borderline personality disorder. Boulder: Westview Press.
Selected articles and book chapters
Becker, D. (2010). Women’s work and the societal discourse of stress, Feminism & Psychology, 20, 36–52.
Becker, D., & Marecek, J. (2008). Positive psychology: History in the remaking? Theory & Psychology, 18 (5), 591-604.
Becker, D., & Marecek, J. (2008). Dreaming the American dream: Individualism and positive psychology. Social and Personality Psychology ComPAss, 2 (5), 1767-1780. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00139.x
Becker, D. (2005). Toward a feminist ecological awareness. In L. Hoshmand (Ed.), Culture, values and psychotherapy: Toward holistic human development and integrity in practice (pp. 114-135). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Becker, D. (2004). Posttraumatic stress disorder: Panacea or problem? In P. J. Caplan & L. Cosgrove (Eds.), Bias in psychiatric diagnosis (pp. 207-212). New York: Jason Aronson.
Becker, D. (2001). Diagnosis of psychological disorders: DSM and gender. In J. Worrell (Ed.), The encyclopedia of gender, Vol. 1 (pp. 333-343). San Diego: Academic Press.
Becker, D. (2000). When she was bad: Borderline personality disorder in a posttraumatic age. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70 (4), 422-432.
Becker, D., & Lamb, S. (1994). Sex bias in the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 25, 55-61.
Becker, D., & Marecek, J. (2008). Positive psychology: History in the remaking? Theory & Psychology, 18 (5), 591-604.
Becker, D., & Marecek, J. (2008). Dreaming the American dream: Individualism and positive psychology. Social and Personality Psychology ComPAss, 2 (5), 1767-1780. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00139.x
Becker, D. (2005). Toward a feminist ecological awareness. In L. Hoshmand (Ed.), Culture, values and psychotherapy: Toward holistic human development and integrity in practice (pp. 114-135). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Becker, D. (2004). Posttraumatic stress disorder: Panacea or problem? In P. J. Caplan & L. Cosgrove (Eds.), Bias in psychiatric diagnosis (pp. 207-212). New York: Jason Aronson.
Becker, D. (2001). Diagnosis of psychological disorders: DSM and gender. In J. Worrell (Ed.), The encyclopedia of gender, Vol. 1 (pp. 333-343). San Diego: Academic Press.
Becker, D. (2000). When she was bad: Borderline personality disorder in a posttraumatic age. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70 (4), 422-432.
Becker, D., & Lamb, S. (1994). Sex bias in the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 25, 55-61.