Download or read book Deviance and Mental Illness written by Walter R. Gove and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1982-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from several disciplines discuss how mental illness is identified, its official and unofficial status, the role of the patient in treatment, the structure and nature of psychiatry, and alternatives to its treatment and explanations, the stereotypes of mental illness, even the question of whether it exists other than as a label.