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Of Others Inside Of Others Inside Insanity, Addiction, and Belonging in America Darin Weinberg Foreword by Bryan S. Turner Temple University Press Philadelphia TempleUniversityPress 1601NorthBroadStreet PhiladelphiaPA19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright(cid:2)C 2005byTempleUniversity Allrightsreserved Published2005 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica (cid:2)∞ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstherequirementsoftheAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciences—PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSIZ39.48-1992 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Weinberg,Darin. Ofothersinside:insanity,addiction,andbelonginginAmerica/DarinWeinberg; forewordbyBryanS.Turner. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN1-59213-403-3(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN1-59213-404-1(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Mentallyill—UnitedStates—Socialconditions. 2.Addicts—UnitedStates—Social conditions. 3.Homelesspersons—Mentalhealth—UnitedStates. 4.Homeless persons—Mentalhealthservices—UnitedStates. 5.Homelessness—UnitedStates. 6.Marginality,Social—UnitedStates. I.Title. HV3009.W45 2005 362.2’0973—dc22 2005044007 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 Tomyfamily Thetypeofsocialscience...wewishtoputforthisanempiri- calscienceofconcretereality.Wewishtounderstandthereality thatsurroundsourlives,inwhichweareplaced,initscharac- teristic uniqueness. We wish to understand on the one hand its context and the cultural significance of its particular manifesta- tions in their contemporary form, and on the other the causes ofitbecominghistoricallysoandnototherwise. —MaxWeber,TheMethodologyoftheSocialSciences,1922 Contents ForewordbyBryanS.Turner xi Acknowledgments xix 1 Introduction:BeyondObjectivismandSubjectivism intheSociologyofMentalHealth 1 I AHistoryofInsanitiesandAddictionsAmong MarginalizedAmericans 2 SettingtheStage 19 3 AddictionsandInsanities:TwoFields andTheirPhenomena 53 II ATaleofTwoPrograms 4 CanyonHouse 95 5 Twilights 144 6 Conclusion 189 References 205 Index 219 ix

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