The Social Control of Mental Illness
by Allan V. Horwitz
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.
Allan V. Horwitz, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
- By (author) Allan V. Horwitz
"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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Culture, Control and Commitment
A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan
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