The Social Control of Mental Illness

by Allan V. Horwitz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971242763
• ISBN13: 9780971242760
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"