Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and B: eyond TRUE CRIME Alex must rely on her

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Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and B: eyond TRUE CRIME Alex must rely on her''Asylum 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