Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and B: eyond TRUE CRIME From one of the worlds

From one of the worlds foremost orthographic authorities

including the limitations of established models that fail to properly account for cultural factors

Improvement is fickle

and muses must visit Mount Olympus to preserve their near-godly status

‘Exciting and mysterious’ The Bookseller

Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and B: eyond TRUE CRIME From one of the worlds''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