The Social Identity of the Chronic Schizophrenic

Paul C. Hooks and Jeffrey S. Levin
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Paul C. Hooks: Division of Sociomedical Sciences Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas 77550
Jeffrey S. Levin: Division of Sociomedical Sciences Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas 77550

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1986, vol. 32, issue 4, 48-57

Abstract: Using ethnographic research methods in a sample of institutionalized male schizophrenics, an emic typology of patient social indentities was derived. Interview and observational data yielded three general status classes comprising thirteen associated identities: killer, fighter, assaultive person, fag, rapist, doper, drunk, victim, con, nut, weirdo, snitch, and disoriented. An individual's social identity varied depending upon his current setting within the hospital (official, private, patient-staff interaction, or outside). This emic-derived typology is con trasted with the etic typologies which dominate the literature (e.g. Goffman, Salisbury and Henry), and the importance of ethnographic study in social psychiatry is highlighted.

Date: 1986
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