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Asylums - Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Paperback)
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Asylums - Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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One of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century
examines the meaning of the asylum 'Psychiatric staff share with
policemen the peculiar occupational task of hectoring and
moralizing adults' 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. 'One of the most distinguished and provocative of
social scientists' The Times
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