Litteratur
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- Goffman Erving. The Medical Model Hospitalization. Asylums, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York 1961
- Stanton Alfred H., og Schwartz Morris S. Medical Opinion and the Social Context in the Mental Hospital. Psychiatry 1949; 3: 243
- Stanton Alfred H., og Schwartz Morris S. The Mental Hospital. Tavistock Lmt., London 1954, side 44, og Goffman, Erving: Asylums, side 353
- Goffman Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York 1959
- Dunham Warren H., og Weinberg Krison S. The Culture of the State Mental-Hospital. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1960, Belknap, Ivan: Human Problems of a State Mental Hospital, McGraw-Hill Book Com., New York 1956
- Goffman Erving. The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization. Asylums
- Mange av ideene til avsnittet om psykoterapeuten er hentet fra Naegele, Kaspar D: Clergymen, Teachers and Psychiatrists: A Study in Roles and Socialization. The Canadian Journal of Economic and Political Science 1956; 1: 46
- Schwartz Morris S., og WillTudor Given. Low Morale and Mutual Withdraval on a Mental Hospital Ward. Psychiatry 1953; 4: 337