The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder - Softcover

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Allan V. Horwitz, PhD, is Board of Governors Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on various aspects of the sociology of mental illness including The Social Control of Mental Illness, Creating Mental Illness, and, with Jerome C. Wakefield, All We Have to Fear (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He is the recipient of the Pearlin Award for lifetime Achievement in the Sociology of Mental Health from the American Sociological Association. Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, PhD, is University Professor and Professor of Social Work at New York University. His previous faculty appointments were at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. Holding doctorates in both Social Work and Philosophy, he has published many articles on the conceptual foundations of psychiatry.