Author/Editor		Zaviršek, D
Title		Psihiatrični oddelek med boleznijo in njeno kulturno manifestacijo: študija primera (II)
Translated title		Psychiatric ward between illness and its cultural manifestation. A case study (II)
Type		članek
Source		Soc Delo
Vol. and No.		Letnik 33, št. 2
Publication year		1994
Volume		str. 99-106
Language		slo
Abstract		The second part of the study is an analysis of the symbolic structures of the institution. A psychiatric hospital is a limited place charged with stigma, in which different spaces determine the mode of communication and encode social situations. The space with the strongest symbolic significance is the one designed for isolation, being the space of punishment and therapeutic intervention at once. There the process of ego mortification is the most powerful. A particular culture of time governs the institution and transforms users into a waiting group whose time has a lesser value than the time of the staff. In the psychiatric institution, a waiting culture is produced. The symbolic organisation of the institution is linked to unconscious mechanisms of overcoming anxiety.
Descriptors		PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL PATIENT SATISFACTION