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Creating Mental Illness
In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a...
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In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most conditions currently regarded as mental illness are cultural constructions, normal reactions to stressful social circumstances, or simply forms of deviant behavior. Thought-provoking and important. . .Drawing on and consolidating the ideas of a range of authors, Horwitz challenges the existing use of the term mental illness and the psychiatric ideas and practices on which this usage is based. . . . Horwitz enters this controversial territory with confidence, conviction, and clarity.--Joan Busfield, American Journal of Sociology
Horwitz properly identifies the financial incentives that urge therapists and drug companies to proliferate psychiatric diagnostic categories. He correctly identifies the stranglehold that psychiatric diagnosis has on research funding in mental health. Above all, he provides a sorely needed counterpoint to the most strident advocates of disease-model psychiatry.--Mark Sullivan, Journal of the American Medical Association Horwitz makes at least two major contributions to our understanding of mental disorders. First, he eloquently draws on evidence from the biological and social sciences to create a balanced, integrative approach to the study of mental disorders. Second, in accomplishing the first contribution, he provides a fascinating history of the study and treatment of mental disorders. . . from early asylum work to the rise of modern biological psychiatry.--Debra Umberson, Quarterly Review of Biology
Author: Allan V. Horwitz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 315
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780226353821
About the Author
Allan V. Horwitz is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University.
Horwitz properly identifies the financial incentives that urge therapists and drug companies to proliferate psychiatric diagnostic categories. He correctly identifies the stranglehold that psychiatric diagnosis has on research funding in mental health. Above all, he provides a sorely needed counterpoint to the most strident advocates of disease-model psychiatry.--Mark Sullivan, Journal of the American Medical Association Horwitz makes at least two major contributions to our understanding of mental disorders. First, he eloquently draws on evidence from the biological and social sciences to create a balanced, integrative approach to the study of mental disorders. Second, in accomplishing the first contribution, he provides a fascinating history of the study and treatment of mental disorders. . . from early asylum work to the rise of modern biological psychiatry.--Debra Umberson, Quarterly Review of Biology
Author: Allan V. Horwitz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 315
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780226353821
About the Author
Allan V. Horwitz is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University.
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