Should screening for depression among children and adolescents be demedicalized?

Allan V Horwitz¹, Jerome C Wakefield¹

• ¹Dr. 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.