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Asylum to action : Paddington Day Hospital, therapeutic communities and beyond / Helen Spandler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spandler, Helen, 1969-
- Series:
- Community, culture, and change ; 16.
- Community, culture, and change ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Therapeutic communities--England--London--History--Case studies.
- Therapeutic communities.
- Paddington Day Hospital--History.
- Paddington Day Hospital.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Asylum to Action offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970's. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the patients' movement.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610566402
- 9781280566554
- 1280566558
- 9781846424878
- 1846424879
- OCLC:
- 298790525
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