Description
Following the classic work on asylums by Erving Goffman, this is a study of democratic tyranny, a tyranny of the therapeutic, in which naked power replaced the ideals of a therapeutic community designed to eliminate hierarchy and bureaucracy. It is a detailed study of a London day hospital, a model community for psychoanalytic treatment in a democratic setting which went badly wrong in its attempt to capture the momentum of de-institutionalization in mental health care. It is also a critique of power for our time, as it moves well beyond a case study to analyse shifts in social control.
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- Contributor: Claire Baron
- Imprint: Free Association Books
- ISBN13: 9780946960613
- Number of Pages: 288
- Packaged Dimensions: 150x230mm
- Packaged Weight: 550
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Free Association Books
- Release Date: 2002-10-24
- Binding: Hardback
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