Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteent

A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society fo

"Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The

One of the most significant medical and social initiatives of the twentieth century was the demolition of the traditional state hospitals that housed most of th

An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chi