1st Edition

The Therapeutic Community Movement Charisma and Routinisation

By Nick Manning Copyright 1989
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 fellowship. A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of the latter is provided. Considerable attention is paid to recent sociology, psychology and critical theory as a basis for reinvigorating therapeutic community work in the changing context of the 1990s is provided.

    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