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Horwitz traces the evolution of defining these disorders and the historical dilemmas of attempting to mold them into traditional medical conceptions of disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Mental Disorders, or DSM\u003c\/i\u003e, as a guide, Horwitz explores the group of conditions that make up personality disorders and considers when they have been tied to or separated from other types of mental illnesses. He also examines how these disorders have often entailed negative moral and cultural evaluations more focused on perceived social deviance than on actual medical conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep conflicts exist in a variety of disciplines in determining the nature of these disorders. During the twentieth century, a particularly sharp division arose between researchers who study personality disorders and the clinicians who treat them. Because researchers strive to develop general laws and clinicians attempt to understand individuals' specific problems, their values, methods, and goals often conflict. Synthesizing historical and contemporary scholarship, Horwitz examines controversies over the definitions and diagnoses of personality disorders and how the perception of these illnesses has changed over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299105452405,"sku":"9781421446103","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781421446103_ebd49ba1-2bbb-4d77-9871-d6b4fa92836d.jpg?v=1786019290"},{"product_id":"9781421426396","title":"PTSD","description":"\u003cp\u003ePost-traumatic stress disorder--and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier's heart, railroad spine, and shell shock--was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The psychic impacts of train crashes, wars, and sexual shocks among children first drew psychiatric attention. Later, enormous numbers of soldiers suffering from battlefield traumas returned from the world wars. It was not until the 1980s that PTSD became a formal diagnosis, in part to recognize the intense psychic suffering of Vietnam War veterans and women with trauma-related personality disorders. PTSD now occupies a dominant place in not only the mental health professions but also major social institutions and mainstream culture, making it the signature mental disorder of the early twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePTSD\u003c\/em\u003e, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions. Arguing that PTSD, perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness, he surveys the conditions most likely to produce traumas, the results of those traumas, and how to evaluate the claims of trauma victims.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlluminating a number of central issues about psychic disturbances more generally--including the relative importance of external stressors and internal vulnerabilities in causing mental illness, the benefits and costs of mental illness labels, and the influence of gender on expressions of mental disturbance--\u003cem\u003ePTSD\u003c\/em\u003e is a compact yet comprehensive survey. The book will appeal to diverse audiences, including the educated public, students across the psychological and social sciences, and trauma victims who are interested in socio-historical approaches to their condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Allan V. Horwitz's \u003cem\u003eAnxiety: A Short History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The definitive overview of the history of anxiety.\"--\u003cem\u003eBulletin of the History of Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A lucid, erudite and brisk intellectual history driven by a clear and persuasive central argument.\"--\u003cem\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An enlightening tour of anxiety, set at a sensible pace, with an exceptional scholar and writer leading the way.\"--\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299240391029,"sku":"9781421426396","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781421426396_ac88b3e7-e1d6-46f0-b7f8-0128c6f8230d.jpg?v=1786019201"},{"product_id":"9781421440699","title":"DSM","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first comprehensive history of \"psychiatry's bible\"—the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past seventy years, the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders\u003c\/i\u003e, or\u003ci\u003e DSM\u003c\/i\u003e, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium of mental disorder. Its nearly 300 conditions have become the touchstones for the diagnoses that patients receive, students are taught, researchers study, insurers reimburse, and drug companies promote. Although the manual is portrayed as an authoritative corpus of psychiatric knowledge, it is a product of intense political conflicts, dissension, and factionalism. The manual results from struggles among psychiatric researchers and clinicians, different mental health professions, and a variety of patient, familial, feminist, gay, and veterans' interest groups. The \u003ci\u003eDSM\u003c\/i\u003e is fundamentally a social document that both reflects and shapes the professional, economic, and cultural forces associated with its use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDSM\u003c\/i\u003e, Allan V. Horwitz examines how the manual, known colloquially as \"psychiatry's bible,\" has been at the center of thinking about mental health in the United States since its original publication in 1952. The first book to examine its entire history, this volume draws on both archival sources and the literature on modern psychiatry to show how the history of the \u003ci\u003eDSM\u003c\/i\u003e is more a story of the growing social importance of psychiatric diagnoses than of increasing knowledge about the nature of mental disorder. Despite attempts to replace it, Horwitz argues that the\u003ci\u003e DSM\u003c\/i\u003e persists because its diagnostic entities are closely intertwined with too many interests that benefit from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive treatment should appeal to not only specialists but also anyone who is interested in how diagnoses of mental illness have evolved over the past seven decades—from unwanted and often imposed labels to resources that lead to valued mental health treatments and social services.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56299539890549,"sku":"9781421440699","price":30.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682893668725,"sku":"9781421457086","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781421440699_d7f35be8-50d9-4299-95f7-88e1d1f443fa.jpg?v=1792511725"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-allan-v-horwitz.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}