Tesis doctoralsDepartament d'Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social

Stultifera domus. Del manicomio a la institución doméstica total: vida cotidiana, familia y esquizofrenia

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    Identifier:  TDX:3813
    Authors:  Alegre Agís, Elisa
    Abstract:
    After Spanish psychiatric reform, people diagnosed with Severe Mental Disorder (SMD) moved from being confined in mental hospitals to live at home. In the existing model of ambulatory care, adults with SMD are taken care for by their families, especially their mothers. This research presents a historiographical analysis of the old asylum model, and an ethnographic analysis of the daily lives of people diagnosed with SMD and their family caregivers. Both aspects lead to a comparison of the two models, based on the hypothesis of the custodial and asylum logic reproduction in the domestic space. The aim of this research was to elucidate how much of these dynamics are maintained, what they are and how they function in the family home. The ethnographic analysis was carried out with diagnosed people, family caregivers and professionals, in associations and facilities of the Catalonian network for public mental health care. The results show numerous custodial dynamics typically described for total institutions in the domestic space, which allow us to speak of a «total domestic institution», with many consequences: caregiving mothers have an enormous care overload that affects their well-being, and diagnosed people experience an erosion of their autonomy, while they lead in a contradictory identity of «total patient» and a «liminal identity». Tutored and regulated life, surveillance, self- reclusion and isolation, absence of or limited social insertion, among other issues that occur at present at home, are like the daily circumstances lived by the insane in the old asylums.
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    Publisher: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Date: 2021-11-10, 2022-05-09T01:00:12Z, 2022-01-13T16:20:13Z
    Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673090
    Departament/Institute: Departament d'Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
    Language: eng
    Author: Alegre Agís, Elisa
    Director: Martinez Hernáez, Angel, Comelles Esteban, José Maria
    Source: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)
    Format: application/pdf, application/pdf, 389 p.
  • Keywords:

    Medical Anthropology
    Severe Mental Disorder
    Family
    Trastorno Mental Grave
    Antropologia Mèdica
    Trastorn Mental Greu
    Familia
    616.89
    Arts i humanitats
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