Asylum to action : Paddington Day Hospital, therapeutic communities and beyond / Helen Spandler.
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- 1846424879
- 9781846424878
- 9781843103486
- 1843103486
- 128056640X
- 9781280566400
- Paddington Day Hospital -- History
- Paddington Day Hospital
- Paddington Day Hospital
- Therapeutic communities -- History -- Case studies
- Therapeutic communities
- Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
- Milieu Therapy -- history
- Therapeutic Community
- London
- Communauté thérapeutique -- Histoire -- Études de cas
- Communauté thérapeutique
- Mental Health Services
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness
- MEDICAL -- Mental Health
- Therapeutic communities
- England -- London
- 362.2/109421 22
- RC489.T67 S63 2006eb
- 2006 E-891
- WM 28 FE5
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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