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Themes in a Therapeutic Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David H. Clark  and
Kenneth Myers
David H. Clark
Affiliation:
Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge
Kenneth Myers
Affiliation:
Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge
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Introduction The therapeutic community method of treatment was developed by Maxwell Jones at Belmont Hospital (Jones et al., 1952; Jones, 1954; Rapoport, 1960) for the treatment of psychopathic personalities. The method has been applied to an admission unit by Wilmer (1958) and to psychopathic personalities by Craft (1965). Clark (1964) has differentiated between ‘the therapeutic community approach’, of increased activity, freedom and responsibility for all patients in the hospital, and the ‘therapeutic community proper’, the small unit with face-to-face gatherings of all members, social analysis of events, opening of communications, flattening of the authority pyramid and blurring of roles.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 539 , October 1970 , pp. 389 - 395
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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