C. Fred Alford

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

C. Fred Alford is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Fred Alford has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Clinical Psychology and 21 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in C. Fred Alford's work include Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (12 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (10 papers) and Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (9 papers). C. Fred Alford is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (12 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (10 papers) and Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (9 papers). C. Fred Alford collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. C. Fred Alford's co-authors include Thomas McCarthy, Jürgen Habermas, Myron Glazer, George E. McCarthy, Leona Ascher, Sloane Madden, Andrew Wallis, Jerome Rabow, Michael Kohn and Stephen Touyz and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The Journal of Politics and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

In The Last Decade

C. Fred Alford

73 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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David Weberman United States

Shierry Weber Nicholsen United States

Christian Lenhardt Canada

Kate Kenny Ireland

Annette C. Baier United States

Jeremy J. Shapiro United States

Stanford M. Lyman United States

Iwona Irwin-Zarecka

Peter Lunt United Kingdom

Alan Wolfe United States

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Alford, C. Fred, Andrew Wallis, Phillipa Hay, & Deborah Mitchison. (2025). Understanding the child and adolescent eating disorder treatment experiences of autistic people and parents. Journal of Eating Disorders. 13(1). 128–128.

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Alford, C. Fred, et al.. (2023). Spinal muscular atrophy and anorexia nervosa: a case report. BMC Pediatrics. 23(1). 118–118. 2 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of trauma: Holocaust survivors, their children and their children’s children. 12(1-2). 145–155. 2 indexed citations

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Wallis, Andrew, Jane Miskovic‐Wheatley, Sloane Madden, et al.. (2018). Does continuing family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa improve outcomes in those not remitted after 20 sessions?. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 23(4). 592–600. 11 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (2016). Introduction: Haunted Dialogues: When Histories Collide. 27–31. 1 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (2009). After the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (2009). What If The Holocaust Had No Name?. Holocaust Studies. 15(3). 71–94. 1 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (2008). Why Holocaust Testimony is Important, and how Psychoanalytic Interpretation can Help…but only to a Point. Psychoanalysis Culture & Society. 13(3). 221–239. 1 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (2007). Levinas, Winnicott, and Therapy. The Psychoanalytic Review. 94(4). 529–551. 7 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (2006). Evil Be Thou My Good. The Good Society. 15(2). 13–16.

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Alford, C. Fred. (2006). Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (2004). Freud's Theory of Culture: Eros, Loss, and Politics. By Abraham Drassinower. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. 208p. $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Perspectives on Politics. 2(1). 115–116. 10 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (1999). Whistle-Blowers. American Behavioral Scientist. 43(2). 264–277. 30 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (1995). The Group as a Whole or Acting Out the Missing Leader?. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 45(2). 125–142. 13 indexed citations

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Ascher, Leona & C. Fred Alford. (1994). The Psychoanalytic Theory of Greek Tragedy. The Classical World. 87(6). 518–518. 10 indexed citations

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Rabow, Jerome & C. Fred Alford. (1991). Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory: An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on her Psychoanalytic Theory.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 20(2). 322–322. 8 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (1988). A Note on the Instutitional Context of Plato's "Protagoras". The Classical World. 81(3). 167–167.

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Alford, C. Fred. (1987). Eros and Civilization after thirty years. Theory and Society. 16(6). 869–890. 5 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (1985). Nature and Narcissism: The Frankfurt School. New German Critique. 174–174. 1 indexed citations

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Alford, C. Fred. (1985). Is J�rgen Habermas's reconstructive science really science?. Theory and Society. 14(3). 321–340. 9 indexed citations

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