Creating Mental Illness by Allan V. Horwitz
Published 2001 · 86,625 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Creating Mental Illness to read?
Creating Mental Illness scores 59 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 65 out of 100
- Sociological and psychiatric terminology throughout.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Formal academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Sustained conceptual argument about diagnostic categories.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- Dense with history and research literature.
How Creating Mental Illness is regarded
Creating Mental Illness holds a literary regard score of 48 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.