Kirk Stuart

Stuart A. Kirk Stuart A. Kirk Former social worker and author Stuart A. Kirk holds the Marjorie Crump Chair in Social Welfare at UCLA and is a former psychiatric social worker. His research interests include mental health issues, particularly the creation and use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).[1] Kirk has authored, co-authored and edited many books, including most recently Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs (2013).[2] He was former chief editor of the Social Work Research journal.[1] 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[1] Books Kirk, S.A. and H. Kutchins. The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry. Hawthorne,…

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