In Bali, the intergenerational forgetting of names is institutionalized. A woman will be known by her given name to peers. When she bears a son, the boy's age-mates will refer to her as "the mother of so-and-so."
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Institutionalized
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Mary had to be institutionalized after a thorough psychiatric evaluation.
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Your yelling and howling is called a psychosis. I ask, I beg you to see a therapist before you get institutionalized.
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Some sociopaths need to be institutionalized.
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