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

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

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

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

by Erving Goffman

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780385000161
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/18/1961
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 569,986
Product dimensions: 5.27(w) x 7.95(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Erving Goffman was born in Canada in 1922. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1945 and then studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.A. in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1953.  For a year he lived on one of the smaller of the Shetland Isles while he gathered material for a dissertation on that community, and later he served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington. Mr. Goffman is the author of several articles and book reviews which have appeared in such periodicals as Psychiatry and the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of, among other works, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, Interaction Ritual,and Stigma


Table of Contents

On The Characteristics of Total Institutions 1; The Moral Career of the Mental Patient; The Underlife of a Public Institution 1; The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization 1
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