Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Type

Book

Authors

Erving Goffman

ISBN 10

0385000162

ISBN 13

9780385000161

Tags

Personal Transformation, Mental Illness, Pathologies, Social Psychology & Interactions, Sociology

Description

Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the person and how the person can deal with life on the inside. - from Amzon

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