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As Horwitz (1979) notes, the conflict between the labelling explanation of mental illness and the psychiatric explanation of mental illness appears to be unresolved. In the present paper it is suggested that this is because sociologists have ignored recent developments in psychiatry. Considerable evidence is reviewed which supports the psychiatric perspective.
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Walter R. Gove (1982) studied this question.
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