Shelter blues : sanity and selfhood among the homeless /
Desjarlais shows us not anonymous faces of the homeless but real people.While it is estimated that 25 percent or more of America's homeless are mentally ill, their lives are largely unknown to us. What must life be like for those who, in addition to living on the street, hear voices, suffer par...
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | Contemporary ethnography.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Contents; Illustrations; Beauty and the Street
- Alice Weldman's Concerns; Rethinking Experience; Struggling Along; A Critical Phenomenology; Questions of Shelter; Five Coefficients; A Crazy Place to Put Crazy People
- The Sea of Tranquility; Too Much
- Beautiful Ruins; Framing the Homeless; Sensory (Dis)Orientations; The Walls; Roots to Earth; On the Basketball Court; Smoking and Eating and Talking; Displacement and Obscurity; A Physics of Homelessness; Hearing Voices; Holding It Together; Taking Meds; The Street; Secondness to Firstness; Pacing My Mind; The Give and Take.
- Stand AwayRagtime; Who?-What's Your Name? ; We're Losing Him, Sam
- Reasonable Reasonableness; Tactics, Questions, Rhetoric; Epistemologies of the Real; Reactivity; The Office of Reason; Figure, Character, Person; How to Do Things with Feeling; Architectures of Sense; Bodies with Organs; With Your Head Tilted to the Side; Pacing the Labyrinth; Appendix: List of Shelter Residents; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.