Asylum to Action Format:Trade Paperback Written in a very accessible

Written in a very accessible style

knowledge and confidence necessary to lead person-centred dementia care

including his younger sister

self-confidence and self-awareness - through active participation and discussion in pairs or groups

Where traditional educational approaches had produced limited results

Asylum to Action Format:Trade Paperback Written in a very accessibleAsylum 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