C.), Goffman details his theory of the " total institution" (principally in the example he gives, as the title of the book indicates, mental institutions) and the process by which it takes efforts to maintain predictable and regular behavior on the part of both "guard" and "captor," suggesting that many of the features of such institutions serve the ritual function of ensuring that both classes of people know their function and social role, in other words of " institutionalising" them. Allora avete potuto assistere, senza coinvolgimenti di sorta, alla bella e tormentata storia narrata in "Follia". Unlike Cleave, I don't think Stella's is the saddest story I know, and I had very little sympathy for her outside her feeling of entrapment, but I was still completely captivated by her ability to dismiss all rational thought in the face of the man she loves. The book comprises four free-standing essays On the Characteristics of Total Institutions, The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, The Underlife of a Public Institution and The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization.

She shows no sign of growth and just when you think she has overcome what has happened to her, nope, it all relates back to the male. Stella obviously needs help, but all the men in this book are trying so hard to either get in her pants or contribute to her misery, she doesn’t get what she ultimately needs. Intensely vivid descriptions and photographs bring home the full horror of what used to happen to unfortunate patients.Doc Peter works in an asylum for the criminally insane which happens to be within walking distance of the home of their newly hired superintendent, his beautiful but bored housewife Stella and their young son Charlie.

Con l’indicazione di “Piccola farmacia letteraria” di libri ce n’erano diversi, ma io volevo “Follia” e non certo perché fumo, ma perché il titolo girava nella mia mente da un bel pezzo.Charlie, Stella and Max's son, is fascinated with the work and the gardens and the pond, spending many of his days outside.

The nature of these obsessions is, of course, destructive, and everyone involved hurtles toward that destruction in ways both expected and unexpected. There's a tender budding romance between two characters, and a gay teen is traumatized by his parents' rejection. Cleve's somewhat sinister voice and vision were haunting, and the characters' internal motivations draw numerous readings. Exploring the dorm's grounds and history brings evidence that one of Abby's relatives attended the hospital and that one of Dan's relatives may have been the hospital's warden. Non è mai il fatto nudo e crudo, sono le conseguenze che avrebbe se si venisse a sapere: l’atto in sé è insignificante.Con il susseguirsi della lettura si fa sempre più chiaro un problema: l'ossessione sessuale di Stella per quest'uomo, che la porta a nascondere dei segreti, iniziare una seconda vita, partire, allontanarsi dai suoi affetti stabili. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. Il ritratto psicologico dei personaggi, compresi il Dottor Cleave e Max, marito tradito di Stella, rappresentano il pregio maggiore di questo thriller elegante e di classe, nel quale eros, sentimento e malattia sembrano fondersi in un connubio raffinato e delicato. And when the last revelation made by Peter is revealed I found it so ridiculously unbelievable that I wanted to scream.