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Category Archives: Allan V. Horwitz
What Then Shall We Do: The Work Horwitz Left
Allan V. Horwitz has done something rare in the sociology of medicine. He identified a structural problem with precision, named its institutional causes without exaggeration, and refused the convenient resolutions available on both sides of the debate. His central claim … Continue reading
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The Gatekeeper: Jerome Wakefield and the Boundaries of Mental Disorder
Jerome C. Wakefield, born in 1946, spent his career asking a question that psychiatry preferred not to confront: what do we mean when we call something a mental disorder? His answer, the harmful dysfunction analysis (HDA), looks at first like … Continue reading
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Normal Suffering: The Life and Work of Allan V. Horwitz
Allan Victor Horwitz, born August 22, 1948, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, spent more than five decades at Rutgers University asking a question that sounds simple but turns out to be hard: where does ordinary suffering end and mental illness begin? Horwitz … Continue reading
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Serotonin and the Sovereign
Allan V. Horwitz’s (b. 1948) argument, developed in Creating Mental Illness and later in All We Have to Fear with Jerome Wakefield, is that American psychiatry systematically misclassifies normal emotional responses to difficult circumstances as pathological conditions requiring treatment. Grief … Continue reading
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