PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Erving Goffman, Total Institution, Moral Treatment
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19th century growth of insuttuions and institution population. Costly - a day is too little to do much good for the individual but too much if measured in terms of efficiency jfk. Innefectivee: too many long term stays, too many failures after getting out. E(cid:374)ds resear(cid:272)hers to psy(cid:272)h hospitals as (cid:862)heari(cid:374)g (cid:448)oi(cid:272)es(cid:863) Some stayed even for like 40 days. Had to adopt the diagnosis to be able to leave. O he says he(cid:859)ll se(cid:374)d the(cid:373) agai(cid:374) They ended up identifying like 30 people. But, he never sent any more wow. Later he tells the hospitals a(cid:374)d they(cid:859)re like (cid:862)(cid:374)ah (cid:449)e did(cid:374)(cid:859)t k(cid:374)o(cid:449), try it agai(cid:374)(cid:863) Inhumane: boredom with institutions, anger written off as pathology, rigid division between staff and patients, use of coercion. Fueled by both growing criticism and psychopharms: a bunch of drugs come out, these factors push people to the idea that perhaps psych hospitals could.
