Asylum to Action Format:Trade Paperback Where traditional educational approaches had

Where traditional educational approaches had produced limited results

Written in a very accessible style

Part 1 of the book provides a guide to CBT

dreams and symbolic language

Asylum to Action Format:Trade Paperback Where traditional educational approaches hadAsylum 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