Title |
Perspectives on Erving Goffman’s “Asylums” fifty years on
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Published in |
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, May 2012
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DOI | 10.1007/s11019-012-9410-z |
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Authors |
John Adlam, Irwin Gill, Shane N. Glackin, Brendan D. Kelly, Christopher Scanlon, Seamus Mac Suibhne |
Abstract |
Erving Goffman's "Asylums" is a key text in the development of contemporary, community-orientated mental health practice. It has survived as a trenchant critique of the asylum as total institution, and its publication in 1961 in book form marked a further stage in the discrediting of the asylum model of mental health care. In this paper, some responses from a range of disciplines to this text, 50 years on, are presented. A consultant psychiatrist with a special interest in cultural psychiatry and mental health legislation, two collaborating psychotherapists in adult and forensic mental health, a philosopher, and a recent medical graduate, present their varying responses to the text. The editors present these with the hope of encouraging further dialogue and debate from service users, carers, clinicians, and academics and researchers across a range of disciplines. |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 58 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Bachelor | 12 | 21% |
Student > Master | 10 | 17% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 16% |
Researcher | 5 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
Other | 8 | 14% |
Unknown | 10 | 17% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Social Sciences | 14 | 24% |
Psychology | 14 | 24% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 10% |
Arts and Humanities | 4 | 7% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 5% |
Other | 7 | 12% |
Unknown | 10 | 17% |