One Foot in Eden: A Sociological Study of the Range of Therapeutic Community Practice

by Michael Bloor, Dick Fonkert, Neil McKeganey

Book Overview

A comparative sociological account of eight different therapeutic communities, One Foot in Eden, originally published in 1988, was the first study in this area to compare observational material from such a large number of settings.

The communities chosen represent the wide variety of therapeutic community practice at the time: a residential Rudolf Steiner school for mentally handicapped children; two contrasting residential psychiatric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138315613
• ISBN13: 9781138315617
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"