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Creating Mental Illness (Hardcover, 2nd 2001, 2003 Ed.)
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Creating Mental Illness (Hardcover, 2nd 2001, 2003 Ed.)
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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
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"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"
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