“Thought-provoking and essential. . .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 appropriately 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 no less than 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 captivating history of the study and remedy of mental disorders. . . from early asylum work to the upward thrust of up to date biological psychiatry.”―Debra Umberson,
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