A Life Well Lived - Maxwell Jones - A Memoir

Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones death in 1990, "A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to the established practices that exist today.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Max and his gangsters: First meeting. 2. The 1960s. 3. Painful communication. 4. Dreams die hard. 5. Recycling the psyche. 6. The illusion of reality. 7. After thoughts: The lived life. 8. Social learning and the future. Notes. References.

About the author

Dennie Briggs trained as a clinical psychologist and sociologist and has conduced a number of transitional therapeutic communities in the US Navy, the California prison system, schools and universities. He resided in the UK for six years, working at Dingleton and Henderson Hospitals, consulting for NACRO and teaching at the North London Polytechnic.

Summary

A Life Well Lived follows a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and the evolution of therapeutic communities. A close friend collaborator of Maxwell Jones, Dennie Briggs recounts the latter's revolutionary work in mental hospitals, prisons and schools, offering a rare insight into the mind of a pioneer in the therapeutic field.

Product details

• Authors: Dennie Briggs
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781843107408
• ISBN: 978-1-84310-740-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 327 g
• Series: COMMUNITY CULTURE AND CHANGE; Community, Culture and Change
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies