Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates / Erving Goffman.

By:

Goffman, Erving

Series: Penguin modern classicsPublisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2022Description: xii, 337p. ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780241548004 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WM 27.

Contents:

On the characteristics of total institutions -- The moral career of the mental patient -- The underlife of a public institution: A study of ways of making out in a mental hospital -- The medical model and mental hospitalization: Some notes on the vicissitudes on the tinkering trades.

Summary: This groundbreaking work of social science explores life in 'total institutions': the closed, regimented systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental hospitals, which cut individuals off from society. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how lives are managed 'on the inside', the loss of selfhood experienced by those held there, and the ways in which they try to regain their identities.

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Originally published: Garden City: Anchor, 1961.

Includes bibliographical references.

This groundbreaking work of social science explores life in 'total institutions': the closed, regimented systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental hospitals, which cut individuals off from society. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how lives are managed 'on the inside', the loss of selfhood experienced by those held there, and the ways in which they try to regain their identities.

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