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Allan Horwitz

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Allan Horwitz's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Allan Victor Horwitz is an American sociologist who is Board of Governors Professor in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. His previous positions at Rutgers include Chair of the Department of Sociology and Dean for Behavioral and Social Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences. He has also chaired the Mental Health and Medical Sociology Sections of the American Sociological Association, as well as the Psychiatric Sociology Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His research has focused on the sociology of mental health and illness. He was a fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 2007–2008 and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2012–13. In 2006, he received the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health from the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology of Mental Health.

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Allan Horwitz's Published Works

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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder (2007) (994)
The impact of childhood abuse and neglect on adult mental health: a prospective study. (2001) (602)
DSM-III and the revolution in the classification of mental illness. (2005) (459)
Becoming Married and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of a Cohort of Young Adults (1996) (353)
Extending the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey. (2007) (231)
Creating Mental Illness (2002) (230)
Burden assessment scale for families of the seriously mentally ill (1994) (229)
The logic of social control (1990) (215)
The Relationship of Cohabitation and Mental Health: A Study of a Young Adult Cohort. (1998) (183)
The use of multiple outcomes in stress research: a case study of gender differences in responses to marital dissolution. (1996) (182)
Distinguishing distress from disorder as psychological outcomes of stressful social arrangements (2007) (171)
Negative and Supportive Social Interactions and Quality of Life Among Persons Diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness (2001) (171)
How the negative and positive aspects of partner relationships affect the mental health of young married people. (1998) (158)
Ethnic differences in caregiving duties and burdens among parents and siblings of persons with severe mental illnesses. (1995) (151)
Social Networks and Pathways to Psychiatric Treatment (1977) (143)
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age. (2005) (131)
The social control of mental illness (1983) (123)
Caregiving as reciprocal exchange in families with seriously mentally ill members. (1996) (118)
Outcomes in the sociology of mental health and illness: where have we been and where are we going? (2002) (109)
Rethinking twins and environments: possible social sources for assumed genetic influences in twin research. (2003) (107)
The Economy and Social Pathology (1984) (102)
Caregiver Burden: Differentiating the Content and Consequences of Family Caregiving (1995) (100)
Infidelity, initiation, and the emotional climate of divorce: are there implications for mental health? (2001) (89)
All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders (2012) (87)
Selecting outcomes for the sociology of mental health: issues of measurement and dimensionality (2002) (84)
UNEMPLOYMENT, CRIME, AND IMPRISONMENT: A PANEL APPROACH* (1986) (81)
How an age of anxiety became an age of depression. (2010) (72)
The Role of Adult Siblings in Providing Social Support to the Severely Mentally Ill. (1992) (66)
Transforming Normality into Pathology: The DSM and the Outcomes of Stressful Social Arrangements∗ (2007) (66)
Sequencing and Its Consequences: Path Dependence and the Relationships between Genetics and Medicalization1 (2008) (61)
Are emotional distress and alcohol problems differential outcomes to stress?: An exploratory test. (1994) (52)
Adult Siblings as Sources of Social Support for the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Test of the Serial Model. (1993) (51)
Are We Overpathologizing the Socially Anxious? Social Phobia from a Harmful Dysfunction Perspective (2005) (48)
Sex-role expectations, power, and psychological distress (1982) (45)
Siblings as caregivers for the seriously mentally ill. (1993) (44)
SOME MISLEADING CONCEPTIONS IN SENTENCING RESEARCH: An Example and a Reformulation in the Juvenile Court (1980) (41)
Normality (2008) (39)
The Paradox of Professional Success: Grand Ambition, Furious Resistance, and the Derailment of the DSM-5 Revision Process (2013) (38)
The checkered history of American psychiatric epidemiology. (2011) (38)
Help-seeking processes and mental health services. (1987) (37)
The Epidemic in Mental Illness: Clinical Fact or Survey Artifact? (2006) (36)
Formal rationality, substantive justice, and discrimination (1980) (35)
Anxiety: A Short History (2013) (34)
Predictors of Adult Sibling Social Support for the Seriously Mentally III (1994) (33)
Should screening for depression among children and adolescents be demedicalized? (2009) (32)
Creating an Age of Depression (2011) (28)
History of Depression (2017) (26)
Age and Mental Health Services (1998) (25)
Media Portrayals and Health Inequalities: A Case Study of Characterizations of Gene × Environment Interactions. (2005) (23)
Better But Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States since 1950 (review) (2007) (22)
The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Critique and Synthesis of Four Perspectives (2013) (22)
The Effect of Social Control on Delinquent Behavior: A Longitudinal Test (1979) (21)
RESISTANCE TO INNOVATION IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW: A RESPONSE TO GREENBERG (1983) (16)
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine (2009) (15)
Seeking and receiving mental health care (1996) (15)
Media portrayals and health inequalities: a case study of characterizations of Gene x Environment interactions. (2005) (13)
The Medicalization of Deviance@@@Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness.@@@The Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems: Conflict and Collusion. (1981) (13)
Models, Muddles, and Mental Illness Labeling (1979) (12)
An Overview of Sociological Perspectives on the Definitions, Causes, and Responses to Mental Health and Illness (2009) (12)
The importance of the main effect even within an interaction model: elimination vs. expansion of the bereavement exclusion in the diagnostic criteria for depression. (2009) (12)
EXCHANGES (2006) (12)
The differential importance of friend, relative and partner relationships for the mental health of young adults (2002) (12)
The Medicalization of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed a Natural Emotion into a Mental Disorder (2009) (11)
The DSM-5 and the Continuing Transformation of Normal Sadness Into Depressive Disorder (2015) (11)
The Sociological Study of Mental Illness (1999) (10)
Double vision: reply to Freese and Powell. (2003) (10)
Social Constructions of Mental Illness (2012) (10)
Therapy and Social Solidarity (1984) (8)
The age of depression (2005) (7)
Social Disadvantage is Not Mental Disorder: Response to Campbell-Sills and Stein (2005) (7)
Psychiatry’s Continuing Expansion of Depressive Disorder (2016) (7)
A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: An Overview of Sociological Perspectives on the Definitions, Causes, and Responses to Mental Health and Illness (2009) (7)
Classical Sociological Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, and Mental Health (2007) (6)
4. Pharmaceuticals and the Medicalization of Social Life (2010) (6)
Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (2008) (6)
Individualism and its Discontents: The Response to the Seriously Mentally Ill in Late Twentieth Century America (1998) (5)
Primary Therapists' Views of Managed Care (1998) (5)
Social Context, Biology, and the Definition of Disorder (2017) (4)
Normal Reactions to Adversity or Symptoms of Disorder (2012) (4)
DSM ‐ I and DSM ‐ II (2014) (4)
How Did Everyone Get Diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder? (2015) (4)
Marxist Theories of Deviance and Teleology: A Critique of Spitzer (1977) (4)
Toward a New Science of Social Life: A Retrospective Examination of "The Behavior of Law"@@@The Behavior of Law (2002) (4)
Naming the problem that has no name: creating targets for standardized drugs. (2011) (4)
The medicalization of grief (2019) (3)
Marketing of Neuropsychiatric Illness and Enhancement (2013) (3)
OBSERVING THE LAW: APPLICATIONS OF FIELD METHODS TO THE STUDY OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, George J. McCall, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1975. 208 pp. $2.15 (paper (1979) (3)
An Epidemic of Depression (2008) (3)
Normal Negative Emotions and Mental Disorders (2015) (3)
The Troubled History of Psychiatry's Quest for Specificity. (2016) (2)
Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood (2004) (2)
An epidemic of depression: major depressive disorder or normal sadness? (2008) (2)
Diversion in the Juvenile Justice System and a Sociological Theory of Social Control (1995) (2)
PTSD: A Short History (2018) (2)
Correction to “DSM‐III and the revolution in the classification of mental illness” (2007) (2)
Burden Assessment Scale (BAS) 1992 (2001) (2)
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence (2017) (2)
Commentary--A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Managed Competition (2002) (2)
The expansion of post-traumatic stress disorder: some issues regarding diagnosis and treatment. (2011) (1)
Culture, Harmful Dysfunctions and the Sociology of Mental Illness (2013) (1)
Uncomplicated Depression as Normal Sadness (2017) (1)
Noonday Demons and Midnight Sorrows (2008) (1)
What's Normal?: Reconciling Biology and Culture (2016) (1)
The Sociology of Mental Health@@@Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health@@@A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health (2001) (1)
Depressive Symptoms After Loss (2009) (1)
Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era (2019) (1)
The Therapeutic Style (1990) (1)
No One Cares about Crazy People (2017) (1)
Creating Mental Illness in Non-Disordered CommunityPopulations (2007) (1)
Puzzles of Mental Illness (2019) (1)
BOOK REVIEWSPsychotherapy as Religion: The Civil Divine in AmericaPsychotherapy as Religion: The Civil Divine in America, William M. Epstein (Ed.), University of Nevada Press, Las Vegas, Reno: (2006), p. 271, $24.95 (hardcover). (2007) (1)
Topic 2. The Interface of Biological and Experiential Conditions in Health Inequalities Media Portrayals and Health Inequalities: A Case Study of Characterizations of Gene · Environment Interactions (2005) (0)
Michael E. Staub, Madness is Civilisation: When the Diagnosis was Social, 1948–1980 (2013) (0)
Unilateral and Bilateral Social Control (1990) (0)
Screening for depression in general medical practice: how can natural sadness be distinguished from major depressive disorder? (2008) (0)
Normal and abnormal misery: Response to Magee (2006) (0)
The virtue of sadness (2008) (0)
The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital: Policy, Stigma, and Organization. By George W. Dowdall (New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. xiv plus 262pp. $21.95/paperback) (1998) (0)
Biology Re-Emerges (2019) (0)
A sociology of mental disorders that psychologists will like. (2002) (0)
Review Essay: Of Two Minds and The Therapeutic Corporation: A Review (2002) (0)
The Response of Trilateral Control (1990) (0)
Gerald N. Grob, 1931-2015. (2016) (0)
Siblings as Caregivers for the Seriously Mentally (2016) (0)
The Past and Future of Mental Illness (2019) (0)
Review Essay: Revisiting an Underappreciated Classic: John Lofland’s Deviance and Identity (2004) (0)
The Successes and Failures of the DSM Revolution (2019) (0)
Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945–1970 by Martin Halliwell (review) (2014) (0)
Sadness is not a disorder (2007) (0)
The Compensatory Style (1990) (0)
The Decline and Fall of Dynamic Psychiatry (2019) (0)
14. The Normal Pain of the Social Brain: Confusing Depressive Disorder with Normal Sadness (2015) (0)
Before Psychiatry (2019) (0)
A Biological Century (2019) (0)
Depressive symptoms after loss are not necessarily signs of major depression: Response to Pies. (2009) (0)
An Idiosyncratic Sociology of Medicine Text. (1989) (0)
The Penal Style (1990) (0)
Freud’s Transformation of Normality (2019) (0)
Diagnostic Psychiatry (2019) (0)
Herodotus and Darwin (2016) (0)
Conundrums in Modern American Medicine (2017) (0)
Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy (review) (2002) (0)
ENHANCING ACCESS THROUGH TEENSCREEN. Authors' reply (2009) (0)
The Conciliatory Style (1990) (0)
Between Sanity and Madness (2019) (0)
Cowardice and Courage (2016) (0)
Detecting and Treating Deviance (1990) (0)
Defects and Differences (2016) (0)
Prozac as a Way of Life (review) (2005) (0)
Enhancing Access through Teenscreen (2009) (0)
Carl Elliott and Tod Chambers, eds. Prozac as a Way of Life (2005) (0)
Mental Illness, Measuring (2014) (0)
Trilateral Forms of Social Control (1990) (0)
Modernizing the Mind: Psychological Knowledge and the Remaking of Society (2004) (0)
Response to Schwartz, Mirowsky and Wheaton (2007) (0)
The Sociology of Aging and the Sociology of Religion (2005) (0)
Mental Illness Becomes Ubiquitous (2019) (0)

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