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Title: Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community by Sue E. Estroff, H. Richard Lamb ISBN: 0-520-05451-2 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: June, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.75 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating look into the lives of the severely mentally ill
Comment: It has been quite awhile since I've read this book, but I want to tell students, professors, and other people with mental illness like me (I suffer from recurrent depression) that this book gives an excellent description of what it is like to be among the mentally ill and what it is like to deal with chronic mental illness.
The author immerses herself in the lives of a group of patients (clients) at a day treatment setting (which would probably now be horribly called "partial hospitalization") in a Northern city. She shows compassion for the clients, but, as I remember it, she really tells it like it is: there is no glorification of mental health treatment, there is direct honesty about the tough lives of the clients.
I, myself, have been in a very similar setting to the one that Estroff describes, and I know the sense of cameraderie that is fostered, as well as, sadly, for most people, the lack of increased or better functioning that occurs.
Overall, I think that Estroff's book, even though it is deeply descriptive (and meant to be such), nevertheless points out the desperate need for such programs in our society.
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Title: Asylums : Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman ISBN: 0385000162 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 October, 1961 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker ISBN: 0738207993 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan ISBN: 0394713788 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sociology of Mental Disorder (6th Edition) by William C. Cockerham ISBN: 0130979597 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $69.00 |
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Title: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture by Arthur Kleinman ISBN: 0520045114 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1981 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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