Asylum to Action Format:Trade Paperback knowledge and confidence necessary to

knowledge and confidence necessary to lead person-centred dementia care

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dreams and symbolic language

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Asylum to Action Format:Trade Paperback knowledge and confidence necessary toAsylum 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