Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era

ISBN-13: 9780190907860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 384 str.

Allan V. Horwitz

Recenzje

Horwitz demonstrates just how recalcitrant mental illness has been to historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary diagnostic systems, including those of American psychiatry today. That impressive resistance to psychological, social and biological explanations does not mean that the psychiatric treatment of the mentally ill has not improved, only that we are still in an era of uncertainty and limited knowledge which should make us humble and honest about how far we still have to go to have an adequate theory of mental illness. A balanced, easy to read, and useful book.

O autorze

Allan V. Horwitz is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. He has published over 100 articles and chapters about various aspects of mental health and illness as well as nine books, including Creating Mental Illness (University of Chicago Press 2002), The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Misery into Depressive Disorder (Oxford University Press 2007 with Jerome Wakefield), All We Have to Fear (Oxford University Press 2012 with Jerome Wakefield), A Short History of Anxiety (Johns Hopkins University Press 2013), and PTSD: A Short History (Johns Hopkins University Press 2018). In 2006, he received the Leonard Pearlin Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health and in 2016 the Leo G. Reeder Award for Lifetime Contributions to Medical Sociology, both from the American Sociological Association. He has been a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2007-2008) and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (2012-2013).