Asylums
Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana
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Penguin Books Ltd
UK
2022
Paperback
352
Standard
308581
978-0-241-54800-4
0-241-54800-4
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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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