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Thinking About Institutions

Thinking About Institutions

Milieux and Madness

R.D. Hinshelwood
Foreword by Nick Manning

Number 8 in the Community, Culture and Change series

Paperback: £22.99 / $36.95

2001, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-954-7, BIC 2: MMJT JMAF JMH MBPK

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Introduction. Foreword, by Nick Manning. Prologue: Demoralisation in the Hospital Community. PART ONE: BOUNDARIES AND BOUNDARY PHENOMENA. 1. Reversing the Old. 2. The Anxious Institution and its Defensiveness. 3. Role Relations and Power Relations. 4. The Community Personality: Complicity and Dramatisation. 5. Communication: Linking and Thinking. 6. Challenge and Paradox. PART TWO: ACTING AND THINKING. 7. The Institution's Primal Scene. 8. The Institution's Therapeutic Process. 9. Abuse and Acting-Out. 10. The Group as a Containing Reflective Space. 11. Reflection and Action. PART THREE: RELATIONAL NETWORKS. 12. A Group as Network. 13. The Supervision Network. 14. Chains of Links. PART FOUR: THE ALIENATED COMMODITY AND MARKET PSYCHOLOGY. 15. Alienation and Its Assumptions. 16. Health Capital. 17. Future Visions: Towards Community Care. Epilogue: Living Together. References. Index.