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A Life Well Lived

A Life Well Lived

Maxwell Jones - A Memoir

Dennie Briggs

Number 11 in the Community, Culture and Change series

Paperback: £23.99 / $37.95

2002, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-740-8, BIC 2: MMJT JMAF JMH

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Beginning 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, prisons, communities and schools, and offers a rare and engaging insight into the mind of one of the most important pioneers in the therapeutic community field.