About the Book
Estroff describes a group of chronic psychiatric clients as they attempt life outside a mental hospital.
Making It Crazy
An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community
Price: $33.95 / £29.00
Publication Date: Jun 1985
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 338
ISBN: 9780520907751
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
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