The Therapeutic Community Movement: Charisma and Routinisation

by Nick Manning

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415030579
• ISBN13: 9780415030571
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 8.5"