Moral panics, mental illness stigma, and the deinstitutionalization movement in American popular culture / Anthony Carlton Cooke.

This book argues that cultural fascination with the "madperson" stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization--the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care. An...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Cooke, Anthony Carlton (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects:	Cultural psychiatry. Mental illness > Social aspects. Stigmatization.