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Erving Goffman

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Asylums (Pelican S.)

Penguin Books Ltd (1971)

0140210075

| Paperback

336 pages | 25 x 200 mm | English

€ 4.00 | Value: € 5.62

Genre

Social Psychology

Subject

Mental Illness
Mental Illness: Social Pathlgy
Mentally Ill
Psychiatric Hospitals
Psychiatry

Plot

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.