Making It Crazy : An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community.

By: Estroff, Sue EContributor(s): Lamb, Richard HMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1985Copyright date: ©1985Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520907751Subject(s): Community mental health services -- United States | Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation -- United States | Psychiatry -- Research -- Fieldwork | Sheltered workshops -- United States | Supplemental security income program -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making It Crazy : An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American CommunityDDC classification: 362.220973 LOC classification: RC439.5 -- .E84 1981ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- 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.
Summary: Estroff describes a group of chronic psychiatric clients as they attempt life outside a mental hospital.
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Cover -- 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.

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

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