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.

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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 Psychology59(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 Psychology59(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 PsycheJune and September 2010, 143-147.

Texts in the public domain

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 perspectiveIn Critical psychiatry: Controversies and clinical implicationsBerlin, 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