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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780637103321

Autore

Estroff Sue E

Titolo

Making it crazy : an ethnography of psychiatric clients in an American community / / Sue E. Estroff ; foreword by H. Richard Lamb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1981

ISBN

1-282-35527-9

9786612355271

0-520-90775-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 pages)

Disciplina

362.2/2/0973

Soggetti

Mentally ill - Rehabilitation - United States

Community mental health services - United States

Sheltered workshops - United States

Supplemental security income program - United States

Psychiatry - Research - Fieldwork

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First paperback printing 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-333) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Introduction and orientation -- pt. II. Ethnographic material -- pt. III. Interpretations and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

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