Worlds of the Mentally Ill

Worlds of the Mentally Ill How Deinstitutionalization Works in the City

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Publisher's Synopsis

This study is based on a series of interviews with 313 former patients who have been released from mental hospitals and are no longer isolated from society. Lewis and co-authors began at the time of release, tracking the patients and interviewing them twice over the course of one year. They discover where the patients went, whom they turned to for

Book information

ISBN: 9780809314775
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 362.2
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 198
Weight: 544g
Height: 241mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 19mm