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Classic Text No. 133: 'Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community', by David Millard (1996).
- Source :
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History of Psychiatry . Mar2023, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p78-86. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This text was David Millard's departing gift to a field to which he had contributed for 30 years, as practitioner and later as Lecturer in Applied Social Studies and editor of the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Charting the chronology of Maxwell Jones's career as a world-renowned psychiatrist and therapeutic community pioneer, Millard contrasts Jones's contribution at Mill Hill with Tom Main's at Northfield. Jones's most distinctive contribution was allowing patients to become auxiliary therapists and freeing nurses from the nursing hierarchy. Focusing on a subset of therapeutic communities in adult psychiatry, Millard's paper is not an academic history of therapeutic communities as such. The roles of happenstance and positive deviance are demonstrated in the way change occurs in therapeutic communities. The 'charisma question' is briefly explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *THERAPEUTIC communities
*CHARISMA
*SOCIAL sciences education
*PSYCHIATRISTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0957154X
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- History of Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161622767
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X221140734