Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and BeyondAsylum 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. |
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The Early Years | 29 |
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Protest and Social Action | 39 |
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The Mental Patients Union | 52 |
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Paddington Breakdown | 68 |
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Asylum to Anarchy? | 87 |
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A Consumable Pill of History | 98 |
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Anarchy to Asylum?
Ongoing Conflicts in Practice | 116 |
Beyond the Therapeutic Community | 135 |
CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS
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REFERENCES
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