Overview
- Explores how multiple factors affect the wellbeing of patients in institutions
- Addresses how to improve the treatment of patients
- Examines case studies concerning institutional abuses in Canada and beyond
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Historical ‘Psy’ Discourses Revisited
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Containing Bodies
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The Asylum and Beyond
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Erin Dej is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. She received her doctorate in criminology from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include homelessness, mental health, autonomy among marginalized people, and homelessness prevention.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Containing Madness
Book Subtitle: Gender and ‘Psy’ in Institutional Contexts
Editors: Jennifer M. Kilty, Erin Dej
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89749-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89748-6Published: 11 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07846-1Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89749-3Published: 28 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies, Critical Criminology