Marieke Liem
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479806928
- eISBN:
- 9781479860746
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479806928.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Chapter five describes in depth the factors peculiar to long-term imprisonment, how the interviewees coped with these conditions and how they managed to adapt to (solitary) confinement over the ...
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Chapter five describes in depth the factors peculiar to long-term imprisonment, how the interviewees coped with these conditions and how they managed to adapt to (solitary) confinement over the years. The chapter discusses how lifers dealt with Sykes’ pains of imprisonment. This chapter goes deeper into what differentiates the long-term prisoners’ experience from those who are ‘passing through’ the prison system. It discusses the stages of the lifer prison career, their place in the prison hierarchy, and their fear of becoming institutionalized.Less
Chapter five describes in depth the factors peculiar to long-term imprisonment, how the interviewees coped with these conditions and how they managed to adapt to (solitary) confinement over the years. The chapter discusses how lifers dealt with Sykes’ pains of imprisonment. This chapter goes deeper into what differentiates the long-term prisoners’ experience from those who are ‘passing through’ the prison system. It discusses the stages of the lifer prison career, their place in the prison hierarchy, and their fear of becoming institutionalized.
Richard P. Bentall
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814791486
- eISBN:
- 9780814739143
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814791486.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter explores the treatments developed during a period of innovation that followed the Second World War. The discoveries of this period revealed a constant dialectical tension in the history ...
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This chapter explores the treatments developed during a period of innovation that followed the Second World War. The discoveries of this period revealed a constant dialectical tension in the history of mental health care: between those who seek technical remedies for psychiatric problems, and those who argue that empathy and warmth are the most powerful therapeutic tools available to the clinician. The emergence of the new therapies coincided with the end of the asylum system. The most common term given to this trend is deinstitutionalization, a term that acknowledges the harm that long-term incarceration does to those contained within the asylum walls. The chapter demonstrates how the availability of new drug therapies played an important role in establishing psychiatric treatment in the community, and that, without crucial advances in pharmacology, the closure of the asylums would not have been possible.Less
This chapter explores the treatments developed during a period of innovation that followed the Second World War. The discoveries of this period revealed a constant dialectical tension in the history of mental health care: between those who seek technical remedies for psychiatric problems, and those who argue that empathy and warmth are the most powerful therapeutic tools available to the clinician. The emergence of the new therapies coincided with the end of the asylum system. The most common term given to this trend is deinstitutionalization, a term that acknowledges the harm that long-term incarceration does to those contained within the asylum walls. The chapter demonstrates how the availability of new drug therapies played an important role in establishing psychiatric treatment in the community, and that, without crucial advances in pharmacology, the closure of the asylums would not have been possible.
