Deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. This book focuses on the world of the inmate. It includes essays that focus on the same issue - the inmate's situation in an institutional context. Its chapters approach the central issue from different vantage points, drawing upon different sources in sociology.
Shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us leads to feelings of alienation and a waste of human potential. This title examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and 'us and them' thinking, and illustrates ideas with a case history of a ten-day psychosis.
In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II.