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Worlds of Psychotic People

by Els van Dongen

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"Worlds of Psychotic People brings a fresh twenty-first century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the way in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds. Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital of Saint Anthony's in the Netherlands over a period of five years, it seeks to describe from the perspective of the mental patient some of the fears and hopes that mark an individual's encounter with the reality of a clinical mental ward."--Jacket.

Hospital patientsPsychiatric hospitalsPublic health, netherlandsPsychiatric hospital patientsCase studiesPsychosesCultureSchizophreniaMentally Ill PersonsPsychologyPsychotic DisordersPsychotherapeutic Processes