In a psychiatric clinic, people with severe psychological problems are treated. But is psychiatry actually practiced? How are mental illnesses diagnosed and treated in the daily routine of the clinic? And not least: what is it like to live with a long-term mental illness? In her ethnographic study of a Berlin social psychiatry ward, Martina Klausner looks into these questions and finds out which preconceptions of mental illness and health the therapists and patients have to be confronted with in their everyday lives. An ambivalent image emerges, which traces the diverse efforts to carry out the best possible treatment.
