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Asylum to action : Paddington Day Hospital, therapeutic communities and beyond /
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&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2006.
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| Colección: | Community, culture, and change ;
16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (171 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1846424879 9781846424878 9781843103486 1843103486 128056640X 9781280566400 |