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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811304603321

Autore

Briggs Dennie

Titolo

A life well lived : Maxwell Jones--a memoir / / Dennie Briggs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002

ISBN

1-283-90415-2

1-4175-0186-3

1-84642-376-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

201 p. : ill

Disciplina

616.89/0092

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Soggetti

Clinical psychologists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201).

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.