Held, B. S. (2022, online April). Making sense of charges of scientism in psychology and beyond: Logical and epistemological implications. Theory & Psychology.
Held, B. S. (2021). Taking the humanities seriously. Review of General Psychology, 25(2), 119-133.
Held, B. S. (2020). Epistemic violence in psychological science: Can knowledge of, from, and for the (othered) people solve the problem?
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Held, B. S. (2020). Truth and affordances. Journal of Constructivist Psychology.
Held, B. S. (2019). Testing the limits: Theoretical psychology re-envisioned in light of boundary-pushing trends in theoretical physics, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of psychology. In T. Teo (Ed.), Re-envisioning Theoretical Psychology (pp. 161-188). Palgrave Macmillan.
Held, B. S. (2018). Anything goes by the wayside: Reply to Raskin and Debany. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 31, 400-12.
Held, B. S. (2018). Positive psychology’s a priori problem. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 58, 313-332.
Held, B. S. (2016). Why clinical psychology should not go positive—and/or negative. In A. Wood & J. Johnson (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Positive Clinical Psychology. New York City: Wiley.
Held, B. S. (2016). Negativity and well-being: Commentary on Ryff. Psicologia della Salute, 1, 39-43.
Held, B. S. (2014). Realism, reification, and monism. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Vol 34, 187-194.
Held, B. S. (2013). Feeling bad, being bad, and the perils of personhood. In A. C. Bohart, B. S. Held, E. Mendelowitz, & K. J. Schneider (Eds.), Humanity’s Dark Side: Evil, Destructive Experience, and Psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Held, B. S. (2011). Critique and metacritique in psychology: Whence and whither. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 31, 184-192.
Held, B. S. (2010). Why there is universality in rationality. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 30, 1-16. [Presidential Address of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, American Psychological Association].
Held, B. S. (2009). The logic of case-study methodology. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy [Online], Vol. 5(3), Article 8. Available: http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
Held, B. S. (2009). Psychological kinds and “discourse-dependence”: A reply to Martin and Sugarman. Theory & Psychology 19, 123-129..
Held, B. S. (2008). Combating the tyranny of the positive attitude. In J. Allison and D. Gediman (Eds.), This I believe II: More personal philosophies of remarkable men and women (pp. 106-108). New York: Henry Holt.
Held, B. S. (March 12, 2008). Problematizing the “Problem” of Consciousness. [Review of the book Consciousness and mental life]. PsycCritiques/Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. APA Online, Vol 53, No. 11, Article 1.
Held, B. S. (2006). Regarding objectivity and causality: A rejoinder to Fishman and Miller. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy [Online], Vol. 2(4), Article 5. Available: http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
Held, B. S. (2006). Does case study knowledge need a new epistemology? Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy [Online], Vol. 2(4), Article 2. Available: http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
Held, B. S. (2005). The "virtues" of positive psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 25, 1-34.
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Held, B. S. (2005). In Memoriam (Edward Pols). Review of Metaphysics, 59, 493-495.
Held, B.S. (2004). The negative side of positive psychology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 44 , 9-46.
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Held, B.S. (2002). The tyranny of the positive attitude in America: Observation and speculation. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 965-992.
Held, B.S. (2002). What follows? Mind dependence, fallibility, and transcendence according to (strong) constructionism's realist and quasi-realist critics. Theory and Psychology, 12, 651-669.
Held, B.S. (2001). Anti-scientific attitudes within psychotherapy: Concluding comments. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 57, 53-62.
Held, B.S. (2001). The postmodern turn: What it means for psychotherapy -- and what it doesn't. In B.D. Slife, R. N. Williams, & S.H. Barlow (Eds.) Critical Issues in Psychotherapy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Held, B.S. (2000). General systems theory and philosophy. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press.
Held, B.S. (2000). To be or not to be theoretical: That is the question. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 19, 35-49.
Held, B.S. (1999). Reasons and reason: A reply to Morrision. Symposium, 3, 43-52.
Held, B.S. (1998). The many truths of postmodernist discourse. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 18, 193-217.
Held, B.S. (1998). The antisystematic impact of postmodern philosophy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 5, 264-273.
Held, B.S. (1996). Constructivism in psychotherapy: Truth and consequences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (The flight from science and reason), 775, 198-206.
Held, B.S. (1992). The problem of strategy within the systemic therapies, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 18, 25-34.
Held, B.S. (1991). The process/content distinction in psychotherapy revisited. Psychotherapy, 28,207-217.
Professor Held is the author of Back to Reality: A Critique of Postmodern Theory in Psychotherapy (W. W. Norton, 1995), in which she provides theoretical and philosophical analysis of the postmodern linguistic turn in psychotherapy. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she practiced therapy for many years. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and chapters about psychotherapy and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association Divisions 29 (Psychotherapy), 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology), and 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, of which she was elected President in 2007). She has a long-standing interest in the philosophy of science, in particular the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of psychological inquiry. In this regard, Professor Held has published in and reviewed for the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and Theory & Psychology, among other journals, and she is the author of Psychology’s Interpretive Turn: The Search for Truth and Agency in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (American Psychological Association Books, 2007).
In her popular book Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching: A 5-Step Guide to Creative Complaining (St. Martin’s, 2001) and in subsequent scholarly articles, she has challenged what she calls the “tyranny of the positive attitude in America” and as a result has become a leading critic of the positive psychology movement. This work has led to extensive worldwide media attention, including features in The New York Times and People magazine as well as appearances on the Today show, National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation and a 2007 edition of All Things Considered, the BBC, and the CBC.
Held, B.S. (2001). Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching: A 5-step Guide to Creative Complaining. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.