inmatehood
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inmatehood (uncountable)
- (rare) The state or condition of an inmate.
- 1964, Daniel Jacob Levinson, Eugene B. Gallagher, Patienthood in the mental hospital:
- Prisons and mental hospitals show certain fundamental similarities in organizational structure, in goals, and in the nature of "inmatehood."
- 1967, American Journal of Mental Deficiency - Volume 71 - Page 646
- Conceptualizing "inmatehood" as involving a two-way "causal flow" between personality and social-system determinants reflects a transactional epistemology.
- 2004, Marshall Needleman Armintor, Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity:
- The picture that Schreber provides of his confinement is one of onesided confrontations, innuendos, and unimaginable torture, while to all outward appearances he was the model of docile inmatehood.