Making it crazy : an ethnography of psychiatric clients in an American community

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Making it crazy : an ethnography of psychiatric clients in an American community

Sue E. Estroff ; foreword by H. Richard Lamb

University of California Press, 1985, c1981

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Bibliography: p. 307-333

Includes indexes

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this title, Estroff describes a group of chronic psychiatric clients as they attempt life outside a mental hospital.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD PREFACE PART I INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION 1 A Personal View of Clients and Staff 2 Development of the Topic and Perspective 3 Fieldwork-Tactical and Methodological Aspects PART II ETHNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL 4 Clients and PACT-A Description 5 Medications 6 Subsistence Strategies-Employment, Unemployment, and Professional Disability 7 Normals, Crazies, Insiders, and Outsiders PART III INTERPRETATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Prologue 8 Reviews of Relevant Literature 9 The Social Construction of a Crazy Reality 10 The Sociocultural Context of Illness and Craziness 11 Reflections, Conclusions, and Questions for Further Research EPILOGUE APPENDIX REFERENCES INDEXES Index of Clients Index of Names Subject Index

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Details

  • NCID
    BA81604552
  • ISBN
    • 0520054512
  • LCCN
    79064660
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berkeley
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxi, 344 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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