Wow, sounds like some heavy stuff. Anyone interested in buying it and reading it together? Don't think we've done that since Cyclonopedia, have we?
Anyway:
"The idea emerges that every person’s illness is somehow their own fault..."
Ben ('Bad Science') Goldacre has a lot to say about this, mostly about physical rather than mental illnesses although the principle is the same. He identifies not-at-all-a-Dr. Gillian McKeith, a.k.a. The Awful Poo Woman, as being a prime offender in promoting the idea that illness is caused primarily by an unhealthy lifestyle and that if we could only eat correctly, avoid sinful vices like alcohol and tobacco and take a suitably cold-showers-and-early-morning-runs, Protestant-self-hatred approach to life, we'd all enjoy excellent health and die at the age of 100. The unavoidable corollary being that if you get ill in any way, it's somehow your fault. Whereas something like 60% of cancers are reckoned to be non-lifestyle-related, and were going to happen anyway just because of genetic bad luck.
Sorry, a bit tangential. Looks like an interesting book.