What can a small charity archive do to create a world-class specialist research library? In the companion piece (here) we saw that becoming a place where people of all kinds in that specialist field want to place their printed ephemera, grey matter, books and other forms of publication makes it immediately unique and special, with resources available that are available no where else, either by nature or by annotation or both.
In this chapter the emphasis is on materials actively sought and acquired, as per the library acquistions policy here. Why do we have that book? Well, look at who we might recently have interviewed. How did we come by this recording? The magic of archival preoccupation, coupled with an eye on sources and quotations, and ultimately the skillfull use of Internet searches alongside booksellers brochures, and the hours of time snatched from elsewhere to scour charity shop shelves and secondhand bookstores. How do both "The Community as Doctor" and "Ego and Milieu" turn up in a secondhand bookstore in a Vale of Evesham market town? How did someone recently retired from HMP Grendon open a too-shortly-lived secondhand bookstore at the foot of the Cotswolds? How did a signed copy of an Otto Shaw (I think it was) end up in the far basement of a London bookstore, where both the person at the cash register and an apparent customer just hanging around both had experience of working in the therapeutic residential care of children, albeit with experiences different from mine.
The date range of the reports below all come from the era of printed and posted newsletters. Once the Internet came in and liberated us from the physical labour of manual newsletters, with all the costs of time and money involved in typesetting, formatting, making masters, taking to the printers, picking up from the printers, stuffing, addressing and stamping each newsletter individually by hand, and then finding a post box willing to eat hundreds of envelopes at a time before heading home, often late at night, the whole relationship between publisher and process altered. We continued for a while in the pages of the online Therapeutic Community Open Forum; but we lost a sense of direct communication and momentum, and the small discoveries and joys involved in doing it all by hand, the sense of a gift being sent and a promise being honoured when the last envelope was crammed through the mouth of the letterbox. So the heyday of the "Acquisitions to the Library" ran from the late 1990s until the last issue of the Joint Newsletter at the end of 2004. This is where the rabbit hole ends, and the discovery through the library catalogues, which we never quite got fully online, or through browsing the stacks, would have to begin. We had catalogues for both the National Child Care Library, as it was, and the main print-based Collection, and for the Audio-Video Library as well; all works in progress, like Golden Gate Bridges continually being painted. And in the end, of course, we had the Online Library with its extraordinary record of downloads, and publications written especially for it (here).
As you slide down this page into the middle of the collections, or take the core sample route, remind yourself as you travel that the Archive had just passed the mid-point of its life when the page ends, that there were already over 7,000 books, and that all these mundanities and treasures continued to grow for another fourteen years. And watch those annotations and the work they were doing, and are still doing: telling where an acquisition came from, its provenance; explaining why it was acquired; pleading for someone to take a provocation and run with it, flying kites of ideas: building a future. Now, of course, gone.
2003
The Joint Newsletter of the Association of Therapeutic Communities, Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, and the Planned Environment Therapy Trust
Number 7, March 2003 pp 41-42
LIBRARY : Recent Purchases (with some annotation)
Books
Anderson, Kevin and Quinney, Richard, eds (2000), Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society, University of Illinois Press (Urbana and Chicago)
Ayella, Marybeth F. (1998), Insane Therapy: Portrait of a Psychotherapy Cult, Temple University Press (Philadelphia)
Beattie, Nicholas (2002), The Freinet Movements of France, Italy, and Germany, 1920-2000: Versions of Educational Progressivism, The Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter).
Boston, Mary and Szur, Rolene, eds (1990), Psychotherapy with severely deprived children, Maresfield Library, Karnac (London)
Briggs, Dennie L., Lyon, Blanchard, Molish, Herman B., and Deen, Robert R. (1953) “Selected Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Interpersonal Relations as Revealed by the Blacky Pictures; I. Discrimination Between ‘Unsuitable’ and ‘Normal’ Recruits”, Report No. 227, Medical Research Laboratory, U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London
Clark, Alfred W. and Yeomans, Neville T. (1969), Fraser House, Springer (New York)
[Have a look at “Whither Goeth the World - Humanity or Barbarity: A Thesis About the Life Work of Dr. Neville T. Yeomans”, by Leslie James Spencer, ‘A PhD Research project (as work in progress) on the Life Work of psychiatrist barrister Dr. Neville Yeomans’, at http://www.laceweb.org.au/phd.htm.]
Diel, Paul (1987) The Psychology of Re-Education, Shambhala (Boston, Mass), translated by Raymond Rosenthal
Eldred, Stanley H. and Vanderpol, Maurice, eds. (1968), Psychotherapy in the Designed Therapeutic Milieu, Little Brown and Co. (Boston, Mass.), International Psychiatry Clinics 5:1
Fenton, Norman (1958), An Introduction to Group Counseling in State Correctional Service, The American Correctional Association (New York, New York)
Fenton, Norman (1973), Human Relations in Adult Corrections, Charles C. Thomas (Springfield, Ill.)
[One of the chapters is by Negley Teeters, one of whose pre-war books, I think I’m right in saying, surprisingly referred to the work then going on at Q-Camps. One of the sections of this book concerns “Administration as the Servant of Treatment”, and it would be interesting to have this reviewed in the light of David Clark’s book on Administrative Therapy. It would also be interesting for someone currently involved with prisons to review Fenton’s final chapter, a personal reflection entitled “Prophecy: Prisons in the Year 2000: An Optimistic Vision”. He opens with his discouragement “when the members of the California legislature in the early Thirties did not appropriate all the funds I had requested for a program to deal with children and their serious problems within the confines of the local community rather than subjecting them to commitment in a state training school.” He goes on with “another account of disappointed hopes [when] ... in the spring of 1933, I tried to obtain resources for the treatment and prevention of drug addiction.” Here’s someone who later worked with Harry Wilmer (see below). It would be interesting to see how his forty-plus years of experience stood up to current scrutiny. – Craig Fees]
Fenton, Norman, Reimer, Ernest G., and Wilmer, Harry A., eds. (1967), The Correctional Community: An Introduction and Guide (UC Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles)
[“In earlier and current efforts to evolve a satisfactory nomenclature for this new program, various terms have been used, notably ‘milieu therapy’ and ‘therapeutic community.’…The term ‘correctional community’ is used here to designate the program as defined in the book and as now used in the correctional institutions for youths and adults in California.”]
Fenton, Norman, and Wiltse, Kermit T., eds. (1963), Group Methods in the Public Welfare Program, Pacific Books (Palo Alto, California)
Kramer, Edith (1958), Art Therapy in A Children’s Community: A Study of the Function of Art Therapy in the Treatment Program at Wiltwyck School for Boys, Charles C. Thomas (Springfield, Ill)
Pestalozzi, Julia, Frisch, Serge, Hinshelwood, R.D., and Houzel, Didier, eds.(1998), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings, Karnac Books (London)
Slavson, S.R., ed. (1966), The Fields of Group Psychotherapy, John Wiley and Sons (New York)
[Includes a chapter on ‘Mental Hospitals’ by T.P. Rees and Max Glatt]
Various (nd.), The Education of Retarded and Difficult Children in the Leicester Schools, City of Leicester Education Committee
Veninga, James F. and Wilmer, Harry A., eds. (1985), Vietnam in Remission, Texas A&M University Press (College Station, Texas).
Wiley, Juniper (1996), Precarious Haven, Westview Press (Boulder, Colorado)
Wilmer, Harry A. (1942), The Lives and Loves of Huber the Tuber, National Tuberculosis Association (New York, New York) – illustrations by the author
[“Any resemblance to tubercle bacilli living or dead is purely coincidental; the events portrayed, however, are occurring every day.”]
Wilmer, Harry A. (1945), Corky the Killer: A Story of Syphilis, American Social Hygiene Association (New York, New York) – illustrated by the author
Wilmer, Harry A. (1963), The Mind: First S-T-E-P- S, Franklin Watts [watch for a review in the next issue of the Newsletter!] – illustrated by the author
Zetzel, Elizabeth (1987), The Capacity for Emotional Growth, Maresfield Library, Karnac (London)
Theses
Ayella, Marybeth Francine (1985), Insane Therapy: Case Study of the Social Organization of a Psychotherapy Cult, University of California, Berkeley, PhD.
Carter, Mary Josephine (1984), The Total Institution and the Therapeutic Community: Similarities and Differences, University of Pittsburgh, PhD
Frankel, Barbara (1974), Context, Power, and Ideology in a Therapeutic Community: An Approach to the Transformation of Deviant Identities, Princeton University, PhD. (Anthropology)
Meade, Kimberley Ada (1990), Negotiations in a Therapeutic Community, Acadia University, MA (Sociology)
Soloway, Irving H. (1977), Pimping the Program: The Culture of Patients in a Therapeutic Community, Temple University, PhD. (Anthropology)
Strober, Elizabeth Anne (2001), Canaries in a Coal Mine: Conceptualizations and Treatment of Mental Illness in a Therapeutic Community for the Mentally Ill, University of Washington, PhD. (Anthropology)
Wiley, Juniper (1988), Precarious Haven: An Ethnography of a Holistic Therapeutic Community for Schizophrenics, University of California, San Diego, PhD. (Sociology)
2003
The Joint Newsletter of the Association of Therapeutic Communities, the Charterhouse Group of Planned Environment Therapy Trust
Number 9 December 2003 p25
SOME OF OUR RECENT PURCHASES INCLUDE:
Books and Theses
Brook, Robert C. and Whitehead, Paul C., Drug-Free Therapeutic Community, Human Sciences Press (New York/London), 1980
Carr-Gregg, Charlotte, Kicking the Habit: Four Australian Therapeutic Communities, University of Queensland Press (St. Lucia, Queensland), 1984
Harvey, Sheila, Sheila’s Book: A Shared Journey Through ‘Madness’, Somerset Virtual College NHS Publications (Taunton, Somerset), 2003
Koyen, M.H. Inventaris van het Archief van het Gasthuis van Geel, Jaarboek G.G.Geel 7 (Geel), 1978
Koyen, M.H., Gezinsverpleging van Geesteszieken te Geel Tot Einde 18de Euw, Geels Geschiedkundig Genootschap (Geel), 1973
Mintz, Jerry, No Homework and Recess all day: freedom and democracy in Education, Aero (New York), 2003
Perfas, Fernando B., Therapeutic Community: A Practice Guide, iUniverse (New York/Lincoln/ Shanghai), 2003
Roosens, Eugen, Mental Patients in Town Life: Geel – Europe’s First Therapeutic Community, Sage (Beverly Hills/London), 1979
Sheehy, Peter Phillips, The Triumph of Group Therapeutics: Therapy, the Social Self and Liberalism in America, 1910-1960, PhD. thesis, Department of History, University of Virginia, 2002
Tulipan, Alan B. and Di Salvo, Charles, The Psychiatric Clinic in Encounter, The POCA Press (Pennsylvania), 1971
Tugeniev, Assya, Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner and Work on the First Goetheanum, Temple Lodge (Forest Row, East Sussex), 2003
Zayas, Ramon (as told to Carlos E. Plasencia), Spare Parts: Creating a Person from a Heap of Spare parts, Publish America (Baltimore) 2001 (2003)
Other Media:
IDEC [International Democratic Education Conference] 2003: July 17-22, 2003, New York [20 CD set].
[Featuring Zoe Readhead, Ron Miller, Rabbi Yehudah Fine, Pat Montgomery, Michael Klonsky, Susan Klonsky, Matt Hern, Yaccov Hecht, Beth Goodney, Steve Orel, William Cala, Dave Lehman, John Taylor Gatto, Susan Ohanian, Ruben Diaz, Jr., Meredith Bay, Bill Ayers]
“Russia’s Children”, program in “The Europeans” series, ABC Radio National (Australia), 24.12.2000 [CD]
[Features Dimitry Morosov, founder of the Charterhouse Group’s Kitezh foster family community, and Marina Maximova, teacher, therapist and administrator there]
2004
The Joint Newsletter of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust, the Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, and the Association of Therapeutic Communities, with the Community of Communities
Number 10 April/Spring 2004 p42, pp 47-49
Recent Additions to the Research Library
Books and Printed Ephemera
Bettelheim, Bruno (nd), Milieu Therapy, Roche: Major Contributors to Modern Psychotherapy series
Clark, David Hazell (2004) My Early Years, privately printed.
David Clark is one of the most rewarding interviewees around: Generous, insightful, introspective, honest, and theatrical. The recording of Hitler Youth songs he remembered from a crucial summer spent improving his German with a committed Nazi family should go on the Internet. He was 16, it was the German Olympic year of 1936, and he returned home to Britain knowing that he and his generation would have to prepare themselves for war. All of that, except the sound, is here; with all of the qualities of the interviewee captured with characteristic style.
This is a book written for family and close friends, and it fills in the autobiographical gap left from his earlier, privately printed studies of his father (1985) and mother (1993), and Descent into Conflict, 1945 – A Doctor’ s War (The Book Guild, 1995; also translated and published in a Japanese edition) about the outcome of his preparation of himself for military service following that Hitler Youth night time rally in the woods, and The Story of a Mental Hospital: Fulbourn 1858-1983 (Process Press, 1996), the book which began life as “Nine Exciting Years” and contains the transformations of an old asylum hospital into a therapeutic community.
It is intended for family and friends, and only a small number were printed. He would be happy to be approached about copies, however; and we can send expressions of interest on via the Archive. Gaps still remain in his writing: A dedicated look at the people and places of the post-war therapeutic community movement in Britain (and elsewhere) which he knew, with that warmth and casual precision which David Clark brings to his observations, would be very welcome!
Clarke, Liam (2004), The Time of the Therapeutic Communities: People, Places and Events, Jessica Kingsley
Clay, Bob, et al (editorial group) (2000) Shaping the Flame, Camphill Foundation/The Robinswood Press
Cormier, Bruno M. (1975), The Watcher and the Watched, Tundra Books
“The therapeutic community at the Dannemora State Hospital “Little Siberia” in Clinton, N.Y. lasted from October 1966 to June 1972 – ironically spanning the very years of the Attica tragedy and sponsored by the same New York State Department of Corrections…[the book] gives a history of therapeutic communities and the background at Dannemora, details of how guards were selected and trained and how prisoners were selected; the minutes of the first six months of meetings are included…” Not a book about the substance-abuse type of therapeutic community now prevalent in American prisons; part of the ‘democratic’ tradition in American therapeutic community.
Duane, Michael (1991), Work, Language and Education in the Industrial State, Freedom Press
Eliot, Stephen (2002) Not the Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim’ s Orthogenic School, St. Martin’s Press
“In retelling the story of my early life, I was assisted by my records from the Orthogenic School, primarily the staffs’ transcribed dictations about daily events affecting me…” Read this book, and think about the role of archives in narrating ones’ self.
Frankel, Barbara (1989) Transforming Identities: Context, Power and Ideology in a Therapeutic Community, Peter Lang
“This is not a study of addicts, nor of addiction, even though Eagleville Hospital is a place that describes itself as a ‘therapeutic community for drug addicts and alcoholics’…It is, rather, a study of the means whereby human identities may be transformed…”
Gallant, Wilfred A. (1992), Sharing the Love that frees us: a spiritual awakening from the struggles of addiction and abuse, Captus Press
“Brentwood is a rehabilitation centre for the treatment of people with alcohol and drug-related problems and has been serving the community since 1964…” Detailed academic study of a Canadian therapeutic community.
Gregg, A. et al (authors) (1956) Theory and Treatment of the Psychoses: Some Newer Aspects (papers presented at the dedication of the Renard Hospital, St. Louis October, 1955), Washington University Studies
Includes Alfred H. Stanton, “Theoretical Contribution to the Concept of Milieu Therapy”; and in an “Historical Note” at the end of the book, by Edwin F. and Margaret C.-L. Gildea, the tantalising paragraph opening “Following the failure of the group therapy for parents in the city Negro schools…”
“In August 1920 John Hargrave, at that time Commissioner for Woodcraft and Camping in the Boy Scout Movement, founded the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a woodcraft and camping movement that was destined to play an important role in the social and political life of Britain between the wars.”
Hargrave, John (1913), Lonecraft: The Handbook for Lone Scouts, Constable and Company
Hart, Joseph, Corriere, Richard and Binder, Jerry (1975), Going Sane: An Introduction to Feeling Therapy, Jason Aronson
The dust jacket blurb by Stephen A. Applebaum of the Menninger Foundation says “new, though not entirely exclusive to them, is the expansion of therapy into a way of life concretely supported by a therapeutic community of like-minded persons. Therapeutic communities for outpatients will strike many readers as novel and intriguing.”
Honig, Albert M. (1973), The Awakening Nightmare: A Breakthrough in Treating the Mentally Ill, Delta
“At Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation we have learned a lot through communal living…”
Honig, Albert M. (1978), China Today: Sin or Virtue? Dictatorship or model commune? A firsthand appraisal of the People’s Republic, Exposition
Honig, Albert M. (2002), Hard Boiled Eggs And Other Psychiatric Tales: The Rebirth of the Psychotherapy of Severe Mental Illness, 2nd ed., North Street Publishers
An ISPS recommendation
Kanter, Joel, ed. (2004) Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott, Karnac
Grover, Richard (1995), Communities That Care: Intentional communities of attachment and a third path in community care, Pavilion
A gift of the author, this grounded and insightful study was brought to our attention by Chris Freudenberg, who also put us in touch with Richard Grover. The limitations of the term “therapeutic community” are clear to anyone attempting to reconcile the many different enterprises which have adopted the term over the past sixty years
Guest, Tim (2004) My Life in Orange, Granta Books
Hargrave, John (1927/1979), The Confession of the Kibbo Kift: A Declaration and General Exposition of the Work of the Kindred, William Maclellan
See Joel Kanter’s discussion of how he became involved with the life and work of Clare Winnicott on page 19 of this Newsletter.
King, Pearl, ed. (2003), No Ordinary Psychoanalyst: The Exceptional Contributions of John Rickman, Karnac
Father of the therapeutic community movement speaks out.
Laub, John H. and Sampson, Robert J. (2004) Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, Harvard University Press
List, Samuel Jacob (1963), Can You Afford Tomorrow?, Institute of Applied Psychology
Llorens, Leila A. and Rubin, Eli. Z (1967) Developing Ego Function in Disturbed Children: Occupational Therapy in Milieu, Wayne State University Press
Lyons, Tom Wallace (1983), The Pelican and After: A Novel About Emotional Disturbance, Prescott, Durrell and Company.
Lyons was a child in Bettelheim’s Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, and this novel about the life of a boy in a therapeutic school in Chicago is dedicated “with gratitude and affection to Bruno Bettelheim…” A grown-up child’s eye view: Why haven’t more people in the field read it?
Marcus, Paul (1999 ), Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society, Praeger
Meyer, Carolyn (1979), The Center: From a Troubled Past to a New Life, Athenaeum
“The Center is real enough…a somewhat fictionalized version of the Vitam Center in Norwalk, Connecticut…Vitam is a therapeutic community, a group of people living together for the purpose of helping themselves and each other to deal with the problems that overwhelm them…based on the idea developed in the 1930s in England that disturbed people should take an active role in their own treatment…It’s a place where teen-agers with troubles – emotional problems as well as problems with drugs, school, parents, the law – learn how to change.”
Maclaren-Ross, Julian (1965/1988) Memoir of the Forties, Cardinal
Paul Willetts writes: “Two more volumes of Maclaren-Ross’s work will be coming back into print later this year or early next. These consist of a volume of Selected Stories and a companion volume of Selected Autobiographical Writing, which will include the wonderful Memoir of the Forties.”
National Institute of Mental Health (1968), Mental Health Program Reports – 2, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Includes “Milieu Therapy and the Long-Term Geriatric Mental Patient”, by W. Donahue, L. Gottesman, and D. Coons.
Neill, A.S. und alles (1975), Die Befreiung des Kindes, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (1975).
German translation of Children’ s Rights: Towards the Liberation of the Child, with contributions by A.S. Neill, Leila Berg, Robert Ollendorf, and Michael Duane.
Raines, Theron (2002), Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim, Knopf
Loving portrait of a friend
Rodeman, Maj. Charlotte R. (1960), The Nursing Service in Milieu Therapy, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Sher, Elizabeth, et al (1960) The List Method of Psychotherapy, Philosophical Library, with an introduction by Jacob S. List
Each of the six authors in this book was a professional therapist who had begun as a client of Jacob List. An interesting approach. Check out the title of Theodora Hirschhorn’s chapter, “The Reception Room as Therapeutic Community”.
Smith, Gaynor (1982), Pilsdon Morning, Merlin
A beautiful account of a classic intentional community of attachment, to use Richard Grover’s term: The first twenty years in an ongoing community founded in 1958, inspired by the 17th century religious community at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire. Pilsdon was brought to our attention by colleague Kate Maisey of the Gloucestershire Record Office, on an archival exchange visit to the Archive and Study Centre, where a description of our work rang a bell which she followed up with a friend.
Sorensen, Michael, edited by Richard Grover (1986) Working on Self-Respect: Writings on offenders and other homeless people, Peter Bedford Trust
Stubbs, Marie (2004) Ahead of the Class: How an Inspiring Headmistress Gave Children Back Their Future, John Murray
Studt, Elliot, Messinger, Sheldon L. and Wilson, Thomas P. (1968), C-Unit: Search for Community in Prison, Russell Sage Foundation
von Mering, Otto and King, Stanley H. (1957), Remotivating the Mental Patient, Russell Sage Foundation
A deadening 1950s-style granite edifice of a title about the care of chronic and aging mental patients; but what’s inside? A Chapter titled “The House of Miracles”, with one section subheaded “Relatives Come to Meetings” and another “Art, Rhythm and Religion” (albeit about a Lobotomy retraining ward); a chapter called “A Family of Elders”, another on “Social Self-Renewal and Community Volunteers”. The term “social remotivation” is used in preference to “resocialization” or “rehabilitation” because “These latter two terms imply a process of making the patient acceptable to others, or fit to live among members of society once again. As such, they do not go far enough…”
Wessen, Albert F., ed (1964), The Psychiatric Hospital as a Social System, Charles C. Thomas
Based upon the proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Community Mental Health Research, sponsored by the Social Science Institute of Washington University in 1961, this is a robust book about psychiatric therapeutic community in America, in the midst of a blooming.
Whitehorn, John C. et al (1961), Chestnut Lodge Symposium: Papers Presented on the Fiftieth Anniversary 1910-1960, William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation
Non-Print media
Nyiszli, Dr. Miklos (1960/1994), Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, with a “Foreword” by Bruno Bettelheim, Blackstone Audiobooks.
"The Early History of Organized Camping" (1984). VHS Video version of 30 minute film which “Presents a portrait in words and photographs of the origins of the organized camping movement in America. Two distinguished leaders in the camping field, Mrs. Eleanor P. Eells and Dr. Reynold E. Carlson, talk about the period 1860-1920…”
Eleanor Eells was the author of “From the Sunset Camp Service League: camp as a therapeutic community”, published in Nervous Child 6, pp. 225-231, in 1947. The famous Menninger Bulletin in which the term “therapeutic community” is embedded in the text of Tom Main’s equally famous article, is dated 1946. Hmm.
“Army of Peace: Young unemployed men live and work at the Grith Fyrd camp in the New Forest.”
Digitised 1933 British Pathe news reel about a self-governing, self-sufficiency therapeutic camp for long-term unemployed men, run by Grith Fyrd (Anglo Saxon for “Peace Army”), which had camps in the New Forest and Derbyshire, and gave rise to the Q-Camps organisation, Braziers Park, and Forest School Camps. Through Q Camps it is one of the roots of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust. Rare footage of what Harry Stack Sullivan was calling in the United States a “therapeutic camp or community”.
The Joint Newsletter of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust, the Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, and the Association of Therapeutic Communities, with the Community of Communities
Number 11 August/Summer 2004 pp 13-14
NEW ADDITIONS TO THE RESEARCH LIBRARY
Edith M.H. Baylor and Elio D. Monachesi (1939), The Rehabilitation of Children: The Theory and Practice of Child Placement (Harper and Brothers).
[Why this book? First, look at the date: The world is about to be blown apart by war, and the government in Britain is about to have a whole generation of troubled children and families thrown onto its official plate. And then some of the chapters: Recent Developments in Social Work for Children/ The Evaluation of the Child’s Response to Care [wait, isn’t that a 1990s invention?]/ The Family Before Care/ The Child Before Care / The Child During Care / The Psychiatric Approach in Children’s Work / The Foster Home / The Child at Time of Discharge / Post-treatment History of the Children / The Predictability of the Child’s Response to Care [Care?] / The Practice of Child Placement in Retrospect…]
Dennie Briggs (1975) Fermer les Prisons, traduit et adapte de l’American par Edouard Deliman, (Editions du Seuil, Paris)
Trigant Burrow (1984) Toward Social Sanity and Human Survival (Selections from his writings edited by Alfreda S. Galt) (Horizon Press, New York)
[I was introduced to the significance of Trigant Burrow by Malcolm Pines, who borrowed a tape recorder to record a discussion with David Millard and Richard Crocket about his influence; which was also my introduction to Richard Crocket and David Millard. The back cover blurb begins: “Group analysis, introduced by Trigant Burrow in the early nineteen twenties, was a forerunner of group therapy and other group dynamic approaches. But the purpose of Burrow’s study was different from subsequent group efforts, for his aim was nothing less than to discover why conflict and alienation are rampant throughout human society, why crime, war and mental illness plague our species from generation to generation.”]
David Clark (1977), Basic Communities: Towards an Alternative Society (SPCK, London)
[not THE David Clark, but a significant primary document for those interested in the history of therapeutic communities]
Arcangelo R.T. D’Amore (ed.) (1976) William Alanson White: The Washington Years 1930-1937 (US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration; Washington, D.C.)
Robert V. Frye , guest ed. (1986), Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 18:3 (July-September 1986): “The Therapeutic Community: The Third Decade”
Ian Hart (1978), Dublin Simon Community 1971-1976: An Exploration (The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin. Broadsheet No. 15, September 1978).
[Where else will you find this?]
Douglas S. Lipton (1995), The Effectiveness of Treatment for Drug Abusers Under Criminal Justice Supervision (National Institute of Justice Research Report, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)
Karl Menninger (1963), The Vital Balance: The Life Process in Mental Health and Illness (The Viking Press, New York]
Daniel Offer and Daniel X. Freedman (eds.) (1972), Modern Psychiatry and Clinical Research: Essays in Honor of Roy R. Grinker, Sr. (Basic Books, New York)
[includes paper by Mel Sabshin, former President of the American Psychiatric Association and a Patron of the PETT Appeal]
Patrick Mullahy (ed) (1952), The Contributions of Harry Stack Sullivan: A Symposium on Interpersonal Theory in Psychiatry and Social Science (Science House, New York) [Harry Stack Sullivan - Father of the term “therapeutic community”]
Edward M. Podvoll (1990), The Seduction of Madness: Revolutionary insights into the world of psychosis and a compassionate approach to recovery at home (Harper Collins, New York)
Robert N. Rapoport (1974) la communaute therapeutique [presentation de gerard bleandonu; traduit par helene couturier et gerard bleandonou], (Francois Maspero, Paris)
Benjamin Rush, M.D. ( 1786/1789 (1972)), Two Essays on The Mind (Brunner/Mazel, New York)
Daniel Hack Tuke (1872) Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind Upon the Body in Health and Disease (Lindsay and Blakiston, Philadelphia)
Vincent P. Zarcone (1975) Drug Addicts in a Therapeutic Community: The Satori Approach (York Press, Baltimore)
James Whitehead (2003) Escaping the Circle of Hate (Educational Heretics Press, Nottingham)
[Any book from Educational Heretics Press is worth having in the library]
The Joint Newsletter of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust, the Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, and the Association of Therapeutic Communities, with the Community of Communities
Number 12 November/Fall 2004 p. 21-22
RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE ARCHIVE AND STUDY CENTRE RESEARCH LIBRARY
Academic Therapy 15:2 (1979)
Gift of Paul and Nancy Fees
Avrich, Paul (1995) Anarchist Voices: An oral history of anarchism in America (abridged edition), Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey)
Bock, Friedwart (ed.) (2004) The Builders of Camphill: Lives and Destinies of the Founders Floris Books, Edinburgh
The Counseling Psychologist 1:4 (1969)
Gift of Paul and Nancy Fees
Diggers and Dreamers Intentional Communities: How to do it: The Beginner’s Guide to Joining and Setting up a Commune, Edge of Time, London
Durand-Dassier, Jacques (1969) Structure et Psychologie de la Relation, Editions de l’Epi (Paris)
Durand-Dassier, Jacques (1970) Psychotherapies san psychotherapeute: communautes de drogues et de psychotiques, Editions de l’Epi (Paris)
Durand-Dassier, Jacques (1973) Groupes de rencontre - marathon, Editions de l’Epi (Paris)
Eells, Eleanor (1986) History of Organized Camping: The First 100 Years, American Camping Association (Martinsville, Indiana)
Field, Martin (2004) Thinking about CoHousing: The creation of intentional neighbourhoods, Diggers and Dreamers, London
Gribble, David (2004) Lifelines, Libertarian Education (London)
Joyce, C.A. (ed.) (1968) My Call to the Ministry, Marshal, Morgan & Scott (London)
Joyce, C.A. (1971) Thoughts of a Lifetime, Lakeland, London.
Joyce, C.A. (1974) A Thought for the Week: Omnibus Edition. The broadcast talks of C.A. Joyce Lakeland Publishing (London)
Katzenbach, Nicholas (Chair) (1967) Task Force Report: Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, Task Force on Juvenile Delinquency, The President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (USGPO, Washington, D.C.)
Gift of Paul and Nancy Fees
Marino, Vincent C. (1983) Victory Over Drugs, Death and Degradation, ed. Jay Stewart, VVM, Inc. (Kaneohe, Hawaii)
Marino, Vinny (1996) Journey from Hell, Habilitat (Kaneohe, Hawaii)
“Motivated by a desire to salvage other damaged lives, Vinny founded a therapeutic community in Hawaii in 1971 - called Habilitat - developing rehabilitation techniques that have been described as the most creative and effective in the world. A Federal survey has established Habilitat’s success rate at three times the national average…This is a tough, candid story full of outrage and outrageous stunts…the extraordinary chronicle of a journey to the very depths of hell and back. It is a fascinating pilgrimage and an inspirational one, which tells how one man turned his life around and rejoined the human race.”
“Habilitat, Inc. is a private, non-profit “survival school” that is home to over 250 individuals. There are now thousands of graduates leading productive lives, using skills learned in Habilitat’s many business-like vocational training programs and fund-raising activities.”
Powell, Robert (2001) The Danish Free School Tradition - a lesson in democracy, Curlew Productions, Kelso, ISBN 1 900259 98 2.
A gift of the author.
Tomlinson, Patrick (2004) Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children and Young People, Jessica Kingsley (London)
“This book is based upon the work of a staff group at the Cotswold Community from 1994- 2000.”
Theses and dissertations
Amtzis, Alan David (2003) “Smart, Angry and Out of Control: A Study of How Teens with Drug and Alcohol Problems Re-learn School”, PhD., Department of Teacher Education, Special Education and Curriculum & Instruction, Lynch Graduate School of Education, Boston College
“…few studies within educational or therapeutic community research have addressed the role of education within drug and alcohol treatment programs for teens. Consequently, little information is known about how therapeutic schools meet the task of educating drug-involved students or what sense and meaning the students find in such schools, which are designed to “cure” them.”
Balduzzi, Elena (2002) “A Transition Program for Post-Release Sex Offenders: A Design Proposal”, PhD, Department of Clinical Psychology, Antioch New England Graduate School
“This dissertation offers a model for a residential transition program for post-release sexual offenders…It combines clinical approaches shown to be effective with sexual offenders (e.g., relapse prevention, behavioral treatment) in the context of a therapeutic community and work program.”
Bush, Bernard J., S.J. (1985) “A Systems Inquiry for Self-Renewal of a Therapeutic Community: The House of Affirmation”, PhD, Saybrook Institute
Cardone, Tera E. (2002) “The Effectiveness of a Modified Therapeutic Community Model in Treating Dual-Diagnosed Patients in an Outpatient Day Treatment Setting: A Clinical Dissertation”, DPsych, The California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco Bay Campus, Alliant International University
Chu, Jacqueline (1998) “Social and Environmental Restoration Through Therapeutic Community Gardens”, M.Sc., Department of Environmental Studies, San Jose State University
Clark, Judith Hazlett (1988) “State mental hospitals’ therapeutic processes and how they correlate with a therapeutic community: A case study of one ward”, Ed.D., School of Education, Boston University
Loat, Maddy (2004) “An exploration of TC members’ experience of mutual support in the Cassel Hospital“, PhD., Clinical Psychology, University College London
Maas-DeSpain, J. (2004) “Utopianism, Resilience & Democratic Education in the Netherlands: Emerging trends in education after over a centurey of constructivist thought and some ramifications for children and society", Opleiding Pedagogische Wetenschappen, ISHSS/ De Amsterdamse School voor Pedagogiek en Onderwijskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam
McGovern, John J. (2003) “The Relationship Between Spirituality, Perception of God and Self-Esteem in Substance Abusing Individuals with AIDS”, PhD, New York University School of Social Work
“This study followed 64 residents (36 males and 28 females) admitted into a modified therapeutic community (TC) nursing home for substance abusing clients with AIDS…”
Morgen, Keith J. (2003) “Comparison of a Specially Trained Therapeutic Community Drug Abuse Counseling Staff with Treatment as Usual: Evaluating Longitudinal Treatment Process in Residential and Outpatient Facilities”, PhD., Counseling Psychology, Lehigh University
Reda, Sawsan M. (1985) “Patients’ Perception of Their Roles in Therapeutic Communities”, MPhil., Manchester Polytechnic/CNAA
Gift of Dr. David Millard.
“In order to test the hypothesis that Therapeutic Communities have no standard organisation or principle of practice, three research methods were used: non-participant observation, semi-structured interview and examination of the units’ records. A total sample size of thirty-one subjects were interviewed and eight units were observed....It would seem that TC may achieve its objectives regardless of what programme is designed, as the basic principles underlying these programmes are similar.”
Schmidt, D.R. (2002) “An Ethnographic Process Evaluation of a Faith Based Therapeutic Community for Chemically Addicted Men”, PhD., Trinity International University
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