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Author: Allan V. Horwitz, PhD (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9780190907860
ISBN 10: 019090786
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 24 January 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Horwitz demonstrates just how recalcitrant mental illness has been to historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary diagnostic systems, including those of American psychiatry today. That impressive resistance to psychological, social and biological explanations does not mean that the psychiatric treatment of the mentally ill has not improved, only that we are still in an era of uncertainty and limited knowledge which should make us humble and honest about how far we still have to go to have an adequate theory of mental illness. A balanced, easy to read, and useful book. * Arthur Kleinman, Author of Rethinking Psychiatry * What is madness? How about mental illness? Different times and places have given enormously different answers. Allan Horwitz is among the most readable of historians of psychiatry. His deeply researched and totally arresting book explores these questions - and shows how far off track we have drifted. * Edward Shorter, Professor of History of Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto * Between Sanity and Madness offers a sweeping account of psychiatry's history and its current controversies that is at once sophisticated and accessible. Readers will especially benefit from Horwitz's unparalleled expertise and unique perspective on the advantages and limitations of psychiatry's embrace of the DSM, here astutely and engagingly analyzed. The story of psychiatry's turn to biology is by now well known; Horwitz shows us that the turn to DSM-based diagnostic psychiatry has been just as consequential and problematic for the discipline. * Elizabeth Lunbeck, Author of The Americanization of Narcissism *
Author Information
Allan V. Horwitz is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. He has published over 100 articles and chapters about various aspects of mental health and illness as well as nine books, including Creating Mental Illness (University of Chicago Press 2002), The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Misery into Depressive Disorder (Oxford University Press 2007 with Jerome Wakefield), All We Have to Fear (Oxford University Press 2012 with Jerome Wakefield), A Short History of Anxiety (Johns Hopkins University Press 2013), and PTSD: A Short History (Johns Hopkins University Press 2018). In 2006, he received the Leonard Pearlin Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health and in 2016 the Leo G. Reeder Award for Lifetime Contributions to Medical Sociology, both from the American Sociological Association. He has been a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2007-2008) and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (2012-2013).
