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Thinking About Institutions - Milieux and Madness (Paperback)
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Thinking About Institutions - Milieux and Madness (Paperback)
Series: Community, Culture and Change
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This book not only documents how a therapeutic community functions,
it also contributes to understanding how people can be influenced
by their social setting and how individuals can form coherent
social organizations together.' - Administration & Policy in
Mental Health 'Hinshelwood is a leading figure in the
pro-therapeutic communities camp. This book is a collection of many
of his papers and presentations on the subject. We enjoy a rich
journey through philosophical thought of the last 200 years with
Marx, Foucault and Wittgenstein, among others, making an
appearance. The book is strongest on the historical development of
therapeutic communities. There is plenty of food for thought here.'
- Mental Health Today 'In this book, Bob Hinshelwood distils a
lifetime of clinical and intellectual work to discuss the major
contours of the social and psychological processes that can be
found in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using ideas
drawn from the psychoanalytic world he examines the powerful
relations that develop between groups and between individuals and
their social surroundings. The argument is clearly and securely
based, and will prove an enduring and helpful contribution to that
spirit of reflective enquiry to which he is so deeply committed.' -
Nick Manning The interplay between the internal world of
individuals and the external, social world has been the theme of
many papers R.D. Hinshelwood has published over the past two
decades. In this book he brings these ideas together, and shows how
they derive from therapeutic community practice, and have arisen
from a psychoanalytic understanding of the human unconscious. Many
institutional phenomena derive from this hidden level, and have
implications for therapeutic work in communities and in psychiatry,
for understanding institutions in general, and for reflecting on
public and political aspects of society at large. These themes link
discussions of communication phenomena, of thinking and action in
institutions, of alienation, and of the place of therapeutic
communities in a psychiatric service. Thinking About Institutions
not only documents how a therapeutic community functions, it also
contributes to understanding how people can be influenced by their
social setting and how individuals can form coherent social
organisations together.
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