A Life Well Lived Hilary Abrahams parents and professionals in understanding

parents and professionals in understanding autistic spectrum conditions

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A Life Well Lived Hilary Abrahams parents and professionals in understandingBeginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones' death in 1990, A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to the established practices that exist today. As a close friend and frequent collaborator, Briggs is able to recount in detail Jones' revolutionary work in mental hospitals,