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

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

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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

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