Social Control of Mental Illness

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.Horwitz, Allan V. is the author of 'Social Control of Mental Illness ', published 2002 under ISBN 9780971242760 and ISBN 0971242763.