A Life Well Lived : Maxwell Jones - A Memoir.
Title:
A Life Well Lived : Maxwell Jones - A Memoir.
Author:
Briggs, Dennie.
ISBN:
9781846423765
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (203 pages)
Series:
Community, Culture and Change
Contents:
A Life Well Lived: Maxwell Jones-A Memoir -- Contents -- Introduction: A Record of a Friendship -- 1. "Max and his Gangsters" -- 2. The 1960s -- 3. Painful Communication -- 4. Dreams Die Hard -- 5. Recycling the Psyche -- 6. The Illusion of Reality -- 7. After Thoughts: A Life Well Lived -- 8. Social Learning and the Future: A Conversation -- Notes and References.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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