Creating Mental Illness

"Filled with insights into the social, historical, and economic forces responsible for the overmedicalization of human unhappiness and distress." —George Graham, Metapsychology

In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most conditions currently regarded as mental illness are cultural constructions, normal reactions to stressful social circumstances, or si...