1st Edition
The Therapeutic Community Movement Charisma and Routinisation
By Nick Manning
Copyright 1989
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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There are now more than 1000 therapeutic communites world wide. Yet the fervour which heralded the approach has cooled. Nick Manning tells the story of the therapeutic community movement. Against this background he provides a new analysis of the leading British community, the Henderson Hospital, and examines the development of community based therapeutic communities in Australia by the Richmond... Read more
Chapter 1 The origins of the therapeutic community; Chapter 2 The growth and spread of therapeutic communities; Chapter 3 Social theory and the therapeutic community; Chapter 4 The therapeutic community at Belmont; Chapter 5 The therapeutic community in Australia; Chapter 6 Towards a sociology of the therapeutic community;
Biography
Manning, Nick
`Nick Manning has produced an excellent book which puts the therapeutic community movement into a much clearer perspective. He charts the origins and subsequent developent of the movement, using modern social theories.' - Nursing Times
