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

Erving Goffman

400 pages first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology informative slow-paced

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Asylums is an analysis of life in total institutions -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other i...

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