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The inmates are running the asylum is: A reference to 1989 cult film Dr. Caligari. A reference to the 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. A reference to the 2014 film Stonehearst Asylum. A book by software designer and programmer Alan Cooper (software designer), "the father of Visual Basic".
The book received the Encore Award (2009), European Union Prize for Literature (2011) and was shortlisted for Man Booker Prize (2009) and Walter Scott Prize (2010). The book is based on the historical backdrop of a mental asylum run by Matthew Allen at High Beach in late 1830s and 1840s which had English poet John Clare admitted therein.
Based on his participant observation field work (he was employed as a physical therapist's assistant under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health at a mental institution in Washington, D.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 ...
The government will prevent prisoners from getting TEXAS LETTERS, an anthology about experiences with solitary confinement.
Arriving in town with two pigeons in a cage, Plumpick must evade German soldiers. Slipping into the asylum, he puts on pajamas and mixes with inmates who introduce themselves as The Duke of Clubs and Monsignor Daisy. When Plumpick introduces himself as “the King of Hearts,” the inmates accept him with deference and the Germans overlook him.
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Emilie: Main character and narrator of the book's Hospital Entries. Chloe: Fellow inmate of Emilie who is sent to electro-shock therapy at 4 o'clock in the morning. Emilie never saw her again. Kara: Recovering drug addict. Violet: Fellow inmate who has been the victim of abuse. Dr. Sharpe: Doctor at the mental ward who shows an interest in Emilie.
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