Irving Goffman (1961) Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates, London: Penguin

A original book about the stages an individual goes through to become absorbed into an institution. It is about how a person slowly loses their identity and takes on the identity of the institution and is subject to its rules and regulations. Frightening reading, when you see the implications for those who went to boarding school.

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