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In this book Allan Horwitz views mental illness within a sociological framework of deviance and social control and evaluates communal and individualistic styles of therapeutic control. His new prologue updates the work in the context of significant changes in the American response to mental illness, including the process of psychiatric diagnosis, conceptions of mental illness, and the dynamics of the mental health professions. Originally published by Academic Press in 1982. From the Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition . . . '[A new] system [of social control] based on less coercive and more voluntary therapy has crystallized as trends toward individualism have intensified. The social structures that characterize the remainder of this century, and the accompanying social responses to mental illness that arise, remain to be seen.'

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In presenting us with pieces of a theory explaining how social control works, Horwitz has contributed a thoroughly sociological analysis of mental disorder in societies. Peter Conrad in Social Forces [A] significant contribution to the study of mental illness... [C]lear and forceful. Michael S. Goldstein in Contemporary Sociology I found The Social Control of Mental Illness to be extremely useful to me, both as a professional sourcebook ... and in the classroom. I like it; students like it. I now have the opportunity of recommending it to colleagues. Carol A. B. Warren in Sociology and Social Research An intelligently conceived, well-written, and well-organized book about people who label other people mentally ill. Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Libraries

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Allan V. Horwitz, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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