Barbara Held, Bowdoin\u2019s Barry N. Wish Professor of Psychology and Social Studies, is co-editor of Humanity\u2019s Dark Side: Evil, Destructive Experience, and Psychotherapy, which was just published by the American Psychological Association.<\/p>\n
Held has also received the 2012 Joseph B. Gittler Award, which recognizes \u201cthe most scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge, \u201d\u009d by the American Psychological Foundation, of the American Psychological Association.<\/p>\n
Held\u2019s book, which evolved from a symposium conceived by Held, is a compilation of essays by prominent writers on psychotherapy who offer disparate views regarding humanity\u2019s \u201cdark side,\u201d\u009d defined as the capacity for destructiveness that ranges from the everyday little ways in which we hurt each other to atrocities such as genocide and slavery.<\/p>\n