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1 online resource (369 pages) |
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text file |
| 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. |
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11 Reflections, Conclusions, and Questions for Further ResearchEPILOGUE; 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
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Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation. |
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United States. |
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Community mental health services -- United States.
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Community mental health services. |
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Sheltered workshops -- United States.
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Sheltered workshops. |
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Supplemental security income program -- United States.
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Supplemental security income program. |
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Psychiatry -- Research -- Fieldwork.
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Psychiatry -- Research. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lamb, Richard H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Estroff, Sue E. Making It Crazy : An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1985 9780520054516 |
| ISBN |
9780520907751 (electronic book) |
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0520907752 (electronic book) |
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