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Closing the asylum: the mental patient in modern society
- Author:
- BARHAM Peter
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 206p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the experiences in the community of people who have had a severe mental illness, and asks if contemporary society has adequately understood the lessons of the past about the devaluation and dehumanization of mentally ill people. Suggests that, alongside asylum closures, a drastic reshaping of traditional attitudes towards mentally ill people is required.