DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
new brunswick / piscataway
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Allan Horwitz
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Ph.D. Yale University, 1975 Mailing Address:
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| Allan V. Horwitz earned a doctoral degree in Sociology from Yale University where he was trained in psychiatric epidemiology and in deviance and social control. He came to Rutgers in 1975 as an assistant professor and is currently Professor II in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Professor Horwitz has studied a variety of aspects of mental health and illness, including the social response to mental illness, family caretaking for dependent populations, the impact of social roles and statuses on mental health, and the social construction of mental disorders. His current work integrates biological and sociological perspectives in distinguishing between normal and dysfunctional types of depression. He has published over 60 articles and chapters in the main journals in his field. In addition, he has published several books including The Social Control of Mental Illness (Academic Press 1982; new edition Percheron Press 2002); The Logic of Social Control (Plenum Press 1990); Creating Mental Illness (University of Chicago Press 2002) and The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Misery into Depressive Disorder (Oxford University Press 2007). He is also the co-editor, with Teresa Scheid, of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems (Cambridge University Press 1999). Since 1980 he has been the co-director (with David Mechanic) of the NIMH funded Rutgers Postdoctoral Program in Mental Health. He has also served as Chair of the Sociology Department for nine years (1985-1991; 1996-1999) and is currently Dean for the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Rutgers. Professor Horwitz has also been elected Chair of the Mental Health Section of the American Sociological Association and of the Psychiatric Sociology Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In 2006 he received the Leonard Pearlin Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health from the American Sociological Association. During the 2007-08 academic year he is a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. | ||
