🎧Expert: Mental Health Recovery According to Allan Horwitz
🎧Expert: Mental Health Recovery According to Allan Horwitz
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I’m so happy to bring you my interview with Allan Horwitz as part of our Experts on Recovery series. Allan is one of my heros. He’s a distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers University and the leading expert in the sociology of mental health and illness. He’s authored many books, including DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible, Creating Mental Illness, Anxiety: A Short History, and The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder.
His work uncovers why we’ve come to medicalize the human experience and how that has created a broken mental health system. He has been elected Chair of the Mental Health Section of the American Sociological Association and the Psychiatric Sociology Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
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Thank you, Sarah, this is really important work! I think the medicalisation of our every day sorrows has turned me away from psychology. The way we treat mental malady also shows in the absurd system of licensure and who is allowed to “treat” people. I am just starting to discover your work, so I am excited to listen to this interview. Thank you!
So interesting, Sarah. Freud definitely also came form a medical model indeed. His student Jung had departed more from it and I have found his depth psychology but even more so Kierkegaards depth psychology the most helpful in my practice. None of that would be even considered clinical work today. Another of my hero’s is The German psychiatrist Karl Jaspers, much influenced by Kierkegaard. He was able to reconcile the medical and the psychological but is pretty unknown in the American mental health system of today. Great interview. Great and needed work. Keep going!