Worlds of the Mentally Ill: How Deinstitutionalization Works in the City

by Hendrik Wagenaar, Stephanie Riger, Helen Rosenberg, et al.

Lewis offers a radically different perspective on care of the mentally ill now that these patients are no longer isolated from society.

This book is based on a series of interviews conducted with 313 Chicago area patients released from four different state hospitals. Rather than rely on retrospective data-gathering on patients at intake, Lewis began at the time of release, tracking the patients for 12 months during which they were interviewed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809314770
• ISBN13: 9780809314775
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"