Stuart A. Kirk
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). 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 "Social Work Research" journal.