Stuart A. Kirk holds the Marjorie Crump Chair in Social Welfare at

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and is a former psychiatric

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. His research interests include

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issues, particularly the creation and use of the

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(DSM). Kirk has authored, co-authored and edited many books, including most recently ''Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs'' (2013). He was former chief editor of the ''

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Education

*B.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; *M.S.W., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; *D.S.W. in Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

Books

*Kirk, S.A. and H. Kutchins. ''The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry''. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. *Kutchins, H. & S.A. Kirk. ''Making Us Crazy: DSM--the Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorder''. NY: Free Press, 1997. *Kirk, S.A., (Ed.), ''Social Work Research Methods: Building Knowledge for Practice''. Washington, D.C.:NASW Press, 1999. *Kirk, S.A. & Reid, W.J. ''Science and Social Work: A Critical Appraisal''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. *Kirk, S.A.,(Ed.), ''Mental Disorders in The Social Environment'', NY: Columbia University Press, 2005.

References

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