A Life Well Lived : Maxwell Jones - A Memoir
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Community, Culture and Change
ISBN-10
1843107406
ISBN-13
9781843107408
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 30th, 2002
Print length
208 Pages
Product Classification:
Biography: generalPsychotherapy
Ksh 4,700.00
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A Life Well Lived follows a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and the evolution of therapeutic communities. A close friend collaborator of Maxwell Jones, Dennie Briggs recounts the latter's revolutionary work in mental hospitals, prisons and schools, offering a rare insight into the mind of a pioneer in the therapeutic field.
Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones'' death in 1990, A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to the established practices that exist today. As a close friend and frequent collaborator, Briggs is able to recount in detail Jones'' revolutionary work in mental hospitals, prisons, communities and schools, and offers a rare and engaging insight into the mind of one of the most important pioneers in the therapeutic community field.
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