Asylum to Action
Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond
$100.78
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2006
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781843103486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1843103486 |
| Author: | Helen Spandler |
| Publisher: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Imprint: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 159mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Community, Culture and Change |
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About The Author
Helen Spandler
Helen Spandler is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire. She gained a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University and has published in the area of mental health including young people and self harm and direct payments.
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