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  • Hardcover: 315 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press (10 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226353818
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226353814
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2.2 cm
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"This is a must-read book. . . . The content is superb. It is filled with insights into the social, historical, and economic forces responsible for the overmedicalization of human unhappiness and distress." -- George Graham "Metapsychology"


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In this critique of modern psychiatry, Allan V. Horwitz examines conceptions of mental illness as a disease. Presenting case studies in maladies, he examines the major causes and treatments of mental illness, paying special attention to the use of pharmaceuticals.
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