Should Screening for Depression Among Children and Adolescents Be Demedicalized?

Dr. Horwitz is Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Rutgers University. He is, with Jerome Wakefield, the author of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder. Dr. Wakefield is University Professor, Professor of Social Work, and Professor of Psychiatry at New York University, and the author of many articles on psychiatric diagnosis and the concept of mental disorder. He is coauthor with Allan Horwitz of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

Accepted 22 January 2009.

Disclosure: Dr. Horwitz receives royalties from the University of Chicago Press for the sale of Creating Mental Illness and from the Oxford University Press for the sale of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Ordinary Misery Into Depressive Disorder. Dr. Wakefield receives royalties from Oxford University Press for the sale of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Ordinary Misery Into Depressive Disorder.

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