Writing

“The Betrayal That Was Love.” In E. D. Miller (Ed.), Stories of Complicated Grief: A Critical Anthology. Washington D.C.: NASW Press (forthcoming).

Dissociation in Late Modern American Society: A Defense Against Soul? (Master’s Thesis; MA, Counseling Psychology) Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA. LKKerr_DissociationInAmerica

“The Humanities Reforming Psychiatry. Theory & Psychology,” 19 (3), 431-438. LKKerr-Humanities Reforming Psychiatry (The published version is available at http://tap.sagepub.com.)

“Is Social Anxiety Making Us Depressed?: A Social Evolutionary Hypothesis for Why SSRIs Work.” Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 10 (1), 16-30. LKKerr.in.EHPP (The published version is available at www.springerpub.com.)

Pere Godé Iwele, Laura Kerr, V.Y. Mudimbe (Eds). The Normal and Its Orders: Reading Georges Canguilhem. Ottawa, Canada: Les Editions Malaïka. Cover-The Normal and Its Orders

“Canguilhem and the New ‘Normal’.” In The Normal and Its Orders: Reading Georges Canguilhem.  V.Y. Mudimbe, Laura K. Kerr, Pere Gode Iwele (Eds). Ottawa, Canada: Les Editions Malaïka. Canguilhem & The New “Normal”

“The ‘Borderline’ As the Sociocultural Origin of Borderline Personality Disorder and Psychiatry.” Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 6(3), 201-215. LKKerr.in.EHPP(2004) (The published version is available at www.springerpub.com.)

“Postmodern Diagnoses: Self Before Science in the Search for Identity.” In Narrative Matters 2004 Conference Proceedings. W. L. Randall, D. Furlong, & T. Poitras (Eds.). Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Narrative Matters Conference Planning Committee, 514-523. LKKerr-Narrative Matters

“Foucault and the Care of the Self: Educating for Moral Action and Mental Illness.” In Philosophy of Education: 2001. Urbana: University of Illinois. Foucault and the Care of the Self

Laura K. Kerr and Len Dan Kerr. Screening tools for depression in primary care: The impact of culture, gender, and somatic symptoms on the detection of depression. Western Journal of Medicine, 175, 349-352.

How We Become Mentally Ill (Doctoral dissertation). Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

James G. Greeno, Randi A. Engle, Laura K. Kerr, and Joyce L. Moore. Understanding Symbols: A Situativity-Theory Analysis of Constructing Mathematical Meaning. In Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 1993.

T. I. Gombosi, L. K. Kerr, A. F. Nagy and R. W. Cannata. Helium in the Polar Wind. Advanced Space Research, 12 (6), 183 -186.