Journalist Ethan Watters masterfully evokes the heady admixture of moral certainty and profit motive that drives U.S. clinicians and pharmaceutical companies as they evangelically push Western psychiatry around the globe.
Amazon review
Reading Crazy Like Us left me with a nightmare image of a homogeneous future world with McDonald’s and Starbucks on every corner, obesity gone wild, and Western psychiatry reigning supreme.
More recommended reading
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Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars by Kenneth Hartman |
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt |
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz |
| Imagine serving 30 years in prison with no end in sight. Would you survive? Would you not just survive, but actually grow as a person? |
Driving is one of our most complicated activities, made all the more complex by the cultural diversity of the people who share the roadways. Indeed, traffic is a complex form of culture, a “secret window onto the inner heart of a place.” |
A series of heartbreaking stories of children severely damaged by trauma. But that’s only one side of this remarkable book. The other side is how many of these profoundly damaged children were assisted to heal. |
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Recent & Upcoming
Peer consultant
Dr. Franklin is excited to join the multidisciplinary Pacific Forensic Group as a peer consultant.
Podcast interview
Dr. Franklin converses with Laverne Cox about violence against transgender people.
Book chapter
Forensic Psychology in Military Courts, edited by U.S. Air Force Major Christopher Stein and forensic psychologist Jeffrey Younggren, includes a chapter by Dr. Franklin on psychological evaluations in military courts-martial.
NPR radio interview
Dr. Franklin discusses the career of forensic psychology with job coach Marty Nemko on NPR. Listen online or download the podcast HERE.
Career interview
An in-depth interview about Dr. Franklin’s career by psychologist David Webb is online at “All About Forensic Science.”
Training feedback
Participant evaluations of professional trainings has been updated with attorney feedback from a recent training for the Santa Clara County Superior Court on evaluating juvenile competency.
Book review
A review of the first-ever textbook on multiple-perpetrator rape, which includes a chapter by Dr. Franklin, has been published by the European journal Sexologies.
Profiled
Dr. Franklin was profiled in a high school forensic science textbook.