{"product_id":"leaving-the-psychiatric-hospital-von-erica-dillon","title":"Leaving the Psychiatric Hospital","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevision with unchanged content. In Argentina, deinstitutionalization and community-based mental health care  are almost nonexistent, and public psychiatric hospitals with inpatients  interned for decades are still the norm. A few professionals within these institutions  are working to make a gradual change in this situation, helping longterm  patients return to life in the community. But how, in the Argentinean  context, can they leave the asylum and integrate into society?  This book narrates the stories of women and men who spent most of their  lives interned and who have recently moved out of a neuropsychiatric  hospital. It also describes the externación programs that made this transition  possible and the informal role of the hospital itself in the process. Through an  ethnographic perspective, the book shows how ex-patients¿ lives in the  community are not lonely, isolated, empty, and lacking in socially valued roles  and productive activities as the literature on deinstitutionalization in the  United States and other countries usually describe. There is a trend towards  higher subjective quality of life for those ex-patients living in lower-income  neighborhoods. For coping with poverty and scarcity of community-based  resources they engage in survival strategies, social networks, and participate  in the ¿outside world¿ integrating aspects of the ¿psychiatric world¿ of the  hospital that they have constructed as a multiple resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783639421811\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA New Experience in Argentina\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783639421811","offer_id":39491001516125,"sku":"9783639421811","price":59.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/5c1d192d-ab8f-4d6a-8619-0ae1e12c5cc0.jpg?v=1774934628","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/leaving-the-psychiatric-hospital-von-erica-dillon","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}