Asylum to action : Paddington Day Hospital, therapeutic communities and beyond / Helen Spandler.

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Spandler, Helen, 1969-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Community, culture, and change ; 16.Publication details: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (171 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1846424879
9781846424878
9781843103486
1843103486
128056640X
9781280566400

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Asylum to action.DDC classification:

362.2/109421 22

LOC classification:

RC489.T67 S63 2006eb

NLM classification:

2006 E-891
WM 28 FE5

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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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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