Publications

New Book

Dr. Kamens’s book, Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness will be published in April 2023 by Routledge as part of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) book series.

The book presents a novel, international research study that reconceptualizes schizophrenia through an investigation of ways in which the first-hand, lived experiences of those with a diagnosis differ from conventional diagnostic definitions.

Journal Articles

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Jones, N., Kamens, S. R., Oluwoye, O., Mascayano, C. P., Manseau, M., & Compton, M. (2021). Structural disadvantage, cultural difference and their intersections in early intervention in psychosis services: International landscape and provider views. Psychiatric Services.
Kamens, S. R. (2020). Postcolonialism and (anti)psychiatry: On hearing voices and ghostwriting. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 27, 253-265.
Kamens, S. R. (2019). Extreme states and extreme conditions: On homelessness and the ontico-ontological difference. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 59, 697-705.
Kamens, S. R., Styron, T., & Blum, E. (2019). Voting rights for persons with serious mental illnesses in the U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 42, 197-200.
Kamens, S. R. (2019). De-othering “schizophrenia.” Theory & Psychology, 29, 200-218.
Styron, T., Pavlo, A., Miller, R., Kamens, S. R., Hall, B. C., Fortgang, R., Ivey, A., Edwards, M., Youins, R., Bellamy, C., & Davidson, L. (2018). Home groups: Integrating peer support and clinical care in a community mental health center. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 69, 221-239.
Kamens, S. R., Davidson, L., Hyun, E., Jones, N., Morawski, J., Kurtz, M., Pollard, J., van Schalkwyk, G. I., & Srihari, V. (2018). The duration of untreated psychosis: A phenomenological study. Psychosis: Psychological, Social, and Integrative Approaches, 10, 307-318.
Jones, N., Rosen, C., Kamens, S. R., & Shattell, M. (2018). “It was definitely a sexual kind of sensation”: Sex, sexual identity, and gender in the phenomenology of psychosis. Psychosis: Psychological, Social, and Integrative Approaches, 10, 122-131.
Kamens, S., Constandinides, D., & Flefel, F. (2016). Drawing the future: Psychosocial correlates of Palestinian children’s drawings. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 5, 167-183.
Constandinides, D., Kamens, S., Marshoud, B., & Flefel, F. (2011). Research in ongoing conflict zones: Effects of a school-based intervention for Palestinian children. Peace and Conflict, 17, 270-302.
Kamens, S. R. (2011). On the proposed sexual and gender identity diagnoses for DSM-5: History and controversies. The Humanistic Psychologist, 39(1), 37-59.
Sherkow, S. P., Kamens, S. R., Megyes, M., & Loewenthal, L. (2009). A clinical study of the intergenerational transmission of eating disorders from mothers to daughters. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 64, 153-189.
Sherkow, S. P., Weinstein, L., Kamens, S. R., Williams, C., Shen, J., & Aizaga, K. (2008). Stock-still: A potential developmental marker. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 63, 61-79.

Invited journal articles

Kamens, S. R., Robbins, B. D., & Flanagan, E. H. (in press). Introduction to the fifth special issue on diagnostic alternatives. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Epub ahead of print available at https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/JEXYBPYDSWCBTARWQNTY/full
Kamens, S. R., Robbins, B. D., & Flanagan, E. H. (in press). Introduction to the fifth special issue on diagnostic alternatives. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Epub ahead of print available at https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/JEXYBPYDSWCBTARWQNTY/full
Kamens, S. R. (2020). Hermeneutic haunting: The interpretation of violence and the violence of interpretation. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 27, 277-281.
Kamens, S. R., Flanagan, E. H., & Robbins, B. D. (2018). Introduction to the fourth special issue on diagnostic alternatives. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 59(3), 315-318.
Kamens, S. R., Cosgrove, L., Peters, S. M., Jones, N., Flanagan, E. H., Longden, E., Schulz, S., Robbins, B. D., Olsen, S., Miller, B., & Lichtenberg, P. (2018). Standards and guidelines for the development of diagnostic nomenclatures and alternatives in mental health research and practice. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 59, 401-427.
Kamens, S. R., Robbins, B. D., & Flanagan, E. H. (2018). Introduction to the third special issue on diagnostic alternatives. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 59(1), 121-125.
Kamens, S. R., Flanagan, E. H., & Robbins, B. D. (2017). Introduction to the second special issue on diagnostic alternatives. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 58(1), 3-6.
Kamens, S. R., Robbins, B. D., & Flanagan, E. H. (2017). Introduction to the special issues on diagnostic alternatives. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 57(6), 567-572.
Kamens, S. R., Elkins, D. N., & Robbins, B. D. (2017). Open letter to the DSM-5 Task Force and the American Psychiatric Association. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 57, 675-687.
Robbins, B. D., Kamens, S. R., & Elkins, D. N. (2017). DSM-5 reform efforts by the Society for Humanistic Psychology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 57, 602-624.
Kamens, S. R. (2012). Review of Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma by Taiwo Afuape [book review]. The Humanistic Psychologist, 40, 212-217.
Kamens, S. R. (2010). Identity and other issues in the proposed DSM-V. Clio’s Psyche, June and September 2010, 143-147.

Texts in the public domain

Kinderman, P., Kamens, S. R., Robbins, B. D., & Farley, F. (2020). Regarding the reform and revision of diagnostic systems. An open letter from APA Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology).
Kamens, S. R., Pelton-Cooper, M, Olson, B., Tauber, C., Long, J., Roth, J., Morrissey, M. B., Paranamana, N., Kanda, A., Mrekullive, Q., & Zysman, K. (2019). Statement on the roles of mental health, psychosocial, and other healthcare professionals in migrant/refugee camps, detention sites, border areas, and transit zones. Available at
Kamens, S. R., & Sundararajan, L. (n.d.). Position statement on social justice. APA Division 32: Society for Humanistic Psychology. Available at
Kamens, S. R. (2013). Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome was not actually removed from DSM-5. The Global Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives.
Kamens, S. R. (2013). DSM-5’s somatic symptom disorder: From medical enigma to psychiatric sphinx. The Global Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives.
Kamens, S. R. (2013). Dr. Insel, or: How psychiatry learned to stop worrying and love the biomarker. The Global Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives.
Kamens, S. R., Raskin, J., Farley, F., Robbins, B. D., Rockwell, D., Kumar, K., & Cosby, E. (2013). Mission statement for the 1st International Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives. APA Division 32: Society for Humanistic Psychology.
Kamens, S. R. (2010). Controversial issues for the future DSM-V. Society for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter, Winter 2010. Available at

Book chapters

Kamens, S. R. (2020). Afterword. In J. Strauss, to understand a person: An autobiography (of sorts). Epigraph Books.
Karter, J., & Kamens, S. R. (2019). The DSM in ecological perspective. In Critical psychiatry: Controversies and clinical implications. Berlin, Germany: Springer Nature.
Kamens, S. (2009). Turn: Theories of trauma in the age of linguistics. In W. Schirmarcher (Ed.), Trauma, hysteria, philosophy (pp. 67-150). New York, NY: Atropos Press.

Editorials

Kamens, S. R. (2022). To a new year of humanistic research, scholarship, and service. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 62, 3-5.
Kamens, S. R. (2021). Towards a humanistic future: Sixty years of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 61, 3-20.