Asylum to Action - Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Helen Spandler is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire. She gained a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University and has published in the area of mental health including young people and self harm and direct payments. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. 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. Chronology of Key Events. References. Subject Index. Author Index.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Spandler
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2006
• EAN: 9781843103486
• ISBN: 978-1-84310-348-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 232 mm x 10 mm
• Series: COMMUNITY CULTURE AND CHANGE; Community, Culture and Change
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system