Asylum to action: Paddington Day Hospital, therapeutic communities and beyond
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1. Verfasser: Spandler, Helen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006
Schriftenreihe:Community, culture, and change 16
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Introduction and context -- 2. Paddington Day Hospital : the early years -- 3. Protest and social action -- 4. The mental patients union -- 5. Paddington breakdown -- 6. Asylum to anarchy? -- 7. A consumable pill of history -- 8. Anarchy to asylum? : ongoing conflicts in practice -- 9. Asylum to action : beyond the therapeutic community
Asylum to Action offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the patients' movement. The author's account of the formation of the Mental Patients' Union, the first politicised psychiatric survivors group in the UK, raises questions about the connections between the service user movement, therapeutic communities, critiques of psychiatry and psychoanalytic models of interve
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ISBN:128056640X
1843103486
1846424879
9781280566400
9781843103486
9781846424878

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