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Allan V. Horwitz is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Arts and Humanities, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Philosophy, General Health Professions, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include Mental Health and Psychiatry, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Mental Health Research Topics, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Health, Psychology, and Well-being, as well as the History of Science and Medicine.

Horwitz has published papers in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, Daedalus, and the Social Service Review. Recent papers include:

  • Two Sides of Depression: Medical & Social (2023), published in Daedalus
  • Psychiatry and Its Discontents. By Andrew Scull. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $29.95 (cloth). (2020), published in Social Service Review
  • Mental Illness, Measuring (2025), published in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
  • Mental Illness, Diagnosis Of (2025), published in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society

Collaborations have included work with Jerome C. Wakefield.

Horwitz's book publications are associated with Johns Hopkins University Press. Two noted titles are:

  • DSM (2021)
  • Personality Disorders (2023)

Best Publications

  • The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

    Allan V. Horwitz;Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Creating Mental Illness

    Allan V. Horwitz

  • The impact of childhood abuse and neglect on adult mental health: a prospective study

    Allan V. Horwitz;Cathy Spatz Widom;Julie McLaughlin;Helene Raskin White

  • DSM-III AND THE REVOLUTION IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS

    Rick Mayes;Allan V. Horwitz

  • Becoming married and mental health: A longitudinal study of a cohort of young adults.

    Allan V. Horwitz;Helene Raskin White;Sandra Howell-White

  • Creating Mental Illness

    Janet Wirth-Cauchon;Allan V. Horwitz

  • The logic of social control

    Allan V. Horwitz

  • The social control of mental illness

    Allan V. Horwitz

  • Extending the Bereavement Exclusion for Major Depression to Other Losses: Evidence From the National Comorbidity Survey

    Jerome C. Wakefield;Mark F. Schmitz;Michael B. First;Allan V. Horwitz

  • Burden assessment scale for families of the seriously mentally ill

    Susan C. Reinhard;Gayle D. Gubman;Allan V. Horwitz;Shula Minsky

  • Gender role orientations and styles of pathology among adolescents

    Allan V. Horwitz;Helene Raskin White

  • The use of multiple outcomes in stress research : A case study of gender differences in responses to marital dissolution

    Allan V. Horwitz;Helene Raskin White;Sandra Howell-White

  • The pathways into psychiatric treatment: some differences between men and women.

    Allan Horwitz

  • Becoming married, depression, and alcohol problems among young adults.

    Allan V. Horwitz;Helene Raskin White

  • Negative and supportive social interactions and quality of life among persons diagnosed with severe mental illness.

    Philip T. Yanos;Sarah Rosenfield;Allan V. Horwitz

  • The Relationship of Cohabitation and Mental Health: A Study of a Young Adult Cohort.

    Allan V. Horwitz;Helene Raskin White

  • Distinguishing distress from disorder as psychological outcomes of stressful social arrangements

    Allan V. Horwitz

  • How the negative and positive aspects of partner relationships affect the mental health of young married people.

    Allan V. Horwitz;Julie McLaughlin;Helene Raskin White

  • All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

    Jerome C. Wakefield;Allan V. Horwitz

  • Ethnic differences in caregiving duties and burdens among parents and siblings of persons with severe mental illnesses.

    Allan V. Horwitz;Susan C. Reinhard

  • Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age.

    Allan V Horwitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome C. Wakefield
Jerome C. Wakefield New York University
Helene R. White
Helene R. White Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Peter Conrad
Peter Conrad Brandeis University
Philip T. Yanos
Philip T. Yanos City University of New York
Cathy Spatz Widom
Cathy Spatz Widom City University of New York
Carol S. Aneshensel
Carol S. Aneshensel University of California, Los Angeles
David Mechanic
David Mechanic Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jo C. Phelan
Jo C. Phelan Columbia University

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