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

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Goffman’s Asylums, a key text in the development of deinstitutionalisation, anticipated and indeed predicted some of these changes in psychiatry and has become a concept that is nearly impossible to criticise.

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2009-10-07
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Criminology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Sociology

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