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Dana Becker Ph.D.

About

Dana Becker, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Work and the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and author of several books and numerous scholarly articles. She has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years. She received her A.B. with honors from Bryn Mawr College, her M.S.S. in social work and her Ph.D. in psychology from Bryn Mawr College. Her latest book is One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea. Her other books are The Myth of Empowerment: Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America, and Through the Looking Glass: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder. Her work has received awards from the Society for the Psychology of Women, a division of the American Psychological Association.

Recent Posts
Lean in or Fall Over?
Much recent talk about "work-life conflict" has missed the mark because it centers either on what women need to do to change themselves so they can manage better or how workplaces need to change by developing "family-friendly" policies. But neither of these proposed solutions will work; instead, we need a new way of looking at the problem.
One Nation Under Stress
Are all of us really as "stressed out" as we say we are, or have we come to believe that everything that happens to us is potentially a threat to our health or mental health?