A life well lived : Maxwell Jones--a memoir / Dennie Briggs.

By:

Briggs, Dennie

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Therapeutic communities ; 11.Publication details: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1417501863
9781417501861
9781843107408
1843107406
1846423767
9781846423765
1283904152
9781283904155

Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life well lived.DDC classification:

616.89/0092 B 22

LOC classification:

RC438.6.J644 B75 2002eb

NLM classification:

2003 G-082
WZ 100

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Contents:

Introduction: a record of a friendship -- "Max and his gangsters" -- The 1960s -- Painful communication -- Dreams die hard -- Recycling the psyche -- The illusion of reality -- After thoughts: a life well lived -- Social learning and the future: a conversation.

Summary: 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. As a close friend and frequent collaborator, Briggs is able to recount in detail Jones' revolutionary work in mental hospitals, prisons, communities and schools, and offers a rare and engaging insight into the mind of one of the most important pioneers in the therapeutic communi.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201).

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. As a close friend and frequent collaborator, Briggs is able to recount in detail Jones' revolutionary work in mental hospitals, prisons, communities and schools, and offers a rare and engaging insight into the mind of one of the most important pioneers in the therapeutic communi.