Helen Spandler 
Asylum to Action [PDF ebook] 
Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond

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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 intervention. In particular, Spandler challenges Claire Baron’s dominant account of the subject in her influential book Asylum to Anarchy. She points out that some of the key difficulties that beset Paddington Day Hospital persist in modern therapeutic community practice and, indeed, in mental health services in general. Arguing that these dilemmas require sustained attention, Asylum to Action also informs a wider analysis of the significance of social movements, social action and critical social theory.

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Table des matières

Preface. 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. Chronology of Key Events. References. Subject Index. Author Index.

A propos de l’auteur

Helen Spandler is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire. She gained a Ph D 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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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 176 ● ISBN 9781846424878 ● Taille du fichier 0.7 MB ● Maison d’édition Jessica Kingsley Publishers ● Lieu London ● Pays GB ● Publié 2006 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2529546 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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