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 1970's. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the pat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Community, culture, and change ;
16. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798124506719 |
Table of 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.
