Director. His research was mainly covert
(the inmates (patients) and hospital authorities did not know he was
doing research), with overt elements (some of the
staff knew he was a researcher). His research tried to uncover the "unofficial
reality" of mental institutions, to:
a. Answer the question "what is really going on here?"
b. Discover the "sense" in a place of insanity and, in particular, to analyse how patients coped with both their labelling as "mentally ill" and the "abnormal social situation" in which they found themselves.