RT Article
T1 The Mortification of the Self: Erving Goffman's Analysis of the Mental Hospital
JF Pastoral psychology
VO 65
IS 1
SP 103
OP 126
A1 Capps, Donald 1939-
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1565787773
AB In this article I summarize the main points in the first two essays in Erving Goffman's Asylums, published in 1961, which is based on his field work at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1955-56. The first essay presents his concept of total institutions. The second focuses on the mortification of the self that one experiences during the pre-patient and patient phases. Although these essays reflect observations that were made some 60 years ago, his analysis of what happens to the mental patient in the hospital environment is still relevant, especially for seminary students whose CPE field work takes place in the mental hospital setting. This article also provides the basis for a follow-up article on William F. Lynch's (1965) Images of Hope, which he wrote during his residence at St. Elizabeths Hospital in the early 1960s.
K1 Career contingencies
K1 Disculturation
K1 Erving Goffman
K1 Eviction
K1 GOFFMAN, Erving, 1922-1982
K1 Mental Health
K1 Moral loosening
K1 Psychiatric hospitals
K1 Re-socialization
K1 Role dispossession
K1 SAINT Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
K1 Self mortification
K1 Socialization
K1 Total institutions
DO 10.1007/s11089-015-0665-1