Janice K. Haaken, Ph.D., Professor, Community and Clinical Psychology
 | Department of Psychology Biography |
Filmography
Feature-Length Documentary Films:
Guilty Except for Insanity. (scheduled for completion in fall, 2009). Written and Directed by Jan Haaken. Synopsis and nine-minute work sample available on request.
Moving to the Beat. (2008, 53 minutes) Produced by Jan Haaken, Directed by Caleb Heymann and Abdul Fofanah. Distributed through National Black Programming Consortium. Official selection at the Cascade Festival of African Films 2008, Africa in the Picture Film Festival 2008, International Black Docfest 2008; African Diaspora Film Festival 2008, FESPACO 2009. Completed with the support of the National Black Programming Consortium and scheduled for broadcasting on national public television in fall, 2009.
Queens of Heart: Community Therapists in Drag. (2006, 48 minutes) Written and Directed by Jan Haaken. Official selection at the Northwest Film & Video Festival 2006, LA Femme Film Festival 2007; Port Townsend Film Festival 2008; Astoria International Film Festival 2008 (Selected Best Documentary). Distributed through Cinema Libre, Los Angeles.
Diamonds, Guns and Rice: Sierra Leone and the Women's Peace Movement. (2005, 47 minutes) Produced and Directed by Jan Haaken and Caleb Heymann.. Screened at the Cascade Festival of African Films 2003. DVD distributed through Ooligan Press, Portland, OR.
Video/Film websites:
www.queensofheartdoc.com; www.moving2theb eat.com
www.moving2thebeat.com/
Social Action Research Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0RoPHLri2M
Publications
Books
Haaken, J. and Reavey, P. (Forthcoming 2009) (Eds). Memory Matters: Understanding Recollections of Sexual Abuse. London: Psychology Press.
Haaken, J., Ladum, A., Zundel, K., DeTarr, S., & Heymann, C. (2005). Speaking Out: Women, War, and the Global Economy. Portland, OR: Ooligan Press.
Bigelow, B., Childs, S., Diamond, D., Dickerson, D., & Haaken, J. (2000). Scarves of Many Colors: Muslim women and the Veil, A Curriculum. Washington, D.C.: Teaching for Change.
Haaken, J. (1998). Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Manuscripts under Review
Haaken, J. Hard Knocks: Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling (book manuscript in final process of review.)
Fussell, H., Haaken, J., Lewy, C., & McFarland, B. Clinical perceptions: A study of partner violence and methamphetamine use as presenting problems (revise and resubmit).
Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Haaken, J. (2008). Too close for comfort: Psychoanalytic cultural theory and domestic violence politics. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 13, 75-93.
Haaken, J. (2008). When White Buffalo Calf Woman meets Oedipus on the road: Psychoanalysis, Lakota psychology and male violence. Theory & Psychology 18, 195-208.
Haaken, J. Fussell, H. & Mankowski, E. (2007). Bringing the Church to its knees: Evangelical Christianity, feminism, and domestic violence discourse. Politics and Psychotherapy International 5 (2), 103-115.
Haaken, J. (2005, December). What's so funny? Video ethnography and drag performance. Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 319-327.
Haaken, J. (2003). Pleasures and perils in looking back: Response to Grand, Fogel, Kahane and Nadir, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 4(2). 208-225.
Haaken, J.. (2003). Smart, dumb, or culturally challenged? A social history of the dynamic unconscious. Psychotherapy and Politics International 1 (1). 47-63.
Haaken, J. and Yragui, N. (2003). Going underground: Conflicting perspective on domestic violence shelter practices. Feminism and Psychology, 13 (1). 49-71
Haaken, J. (2003). Traumatic revisions: Remembering abuse and the politics of forgiveness. In P. Reavey and S. Warner (eds.) New Feminist Stories of Child Sex Abuse. New York: Routledge, 77-93.
Haaken, J. (2002, Autumn). Cultural amnesia: Memory, trauma and war. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28 (1), 455-457.
Haaken, J. (2002, Fall). Bitch and Femme Psychology: Women, aggression, and psychoanalytic social theory. Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, 7(2). 202-215.
Mankowski, E., Haaken, J., and Silvergleid, C. (2002, June). Collateral damage: Domestic violence discourse and models of masculinity. Journal of Family Violence, 17 (2), 167-183.
Haaken, J. (2002). The good, the bad, and the ugly: Psychoanalytic and cultural perspectives on forgiveness. In S. Lamb and J.G. Murphy (eds.) Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 172-191.
Haaken, J. (2002). Stories of survival: Class, race, and domestic violence. In Nancy Holmstrom (ed.) The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics. New York: Monthly Review Press, 102-120.
Haaken, J. (2001). Shallow graves: Women and war in Sierra Leone. Journal of Psychoanalyst Psychologist, 21, 26-34.
Brenner, J. & Haaken, J. (2000). Utopian thought: Re-visioning gender, family, and community. Community, Work and Family, 3, 333-347.
Haaken, J. and Lamb, S. (2000, May/June). The politics of child sexual abuse research. Society, 9-14.
Recent Book Reviews
Haaken, J. (2007). Review of Anthony Molino (ed.), Culture, Subject, Psyche: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology. Theory & Psychology 17, 489-493.
Haaken, J. (2002, March). Review of Lynn Phillips, Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Danger. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 26 (1). 95-96.
Haaken, J. (2001). Review of Nicola King, Memory, Narrative, Identity: Remembering the Self. Gender, Place and Culture. 8 (4). 411-413.
Haaken, J. (2000, September). Review of Jeffery Prager, Presenting the past: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Misremembering, Contemporary Sociology, 29 . 734-735.
Papers at Recent Professional Meetings
Haaken, J., Samuels, R. and Whilde, M. (2008, October). Action! Psychoanalysis, new media, and activism. Meetings of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, New Brunswick, NJ.
Haaken, J (2008, September). Pleading insanity: Between madness and badness. Paper and video invited address at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England.
Haaken, J. (2008, March). Critical psychology, critical feminisms: Fighting male violence. Invited keynote address for Women's History Month, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Haaken, J. (2007, November). Battle fatigue: Feminism, psychology, and the movement against domestic violence. Invited address at the meetings of the Manitoba Association of Domestic Violence Workers. Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Haaken, J. (2007, November). Social Action Research and Video Ethnography.Paper presented at the meetings of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, New Brunswick, NJ.
Haaken, J. Roberts, G. & Rempe, D. (2007, October). Moving to the beat: Video ethnography, psychoanalytic social theory, and participatory action research. Northwest ECO/Community Conference, University of Washington Bothell
Haaken, J. (2007, July). Fighting male violence: Fighting Male Violence: Anxieties, group defenses and the problem of reparation. Invited address for the meetings of the British Psychological Society, Section on the Psychology of Women, Windsor, England.
Haaken, J. (2006, May). The third ear: Psychoanalysis, culture, and clinical narratives. Workshop presented at the New Hampshire Psychological Associations.
Haaken, J. (2006, May). Disciplining the heirs of Freud: Psychoanalysis, psychology, and the academy. Paper presented at the London School of Economics. London, England.
Haaken, J. (2006, May) Action! Community Psychology, Video Ethnograpahy, and Social Action Research. Paper presented at Middlesex University, London, England
Haaken, J. (2006, May). Memories of the Satanic abuse scare: What is to be learned. Invited Address at the Sidore Lecture Series, University of New Hampshire.