A Life Well Lived: Maxwell Jones - A Memoir (Community, Culture and Change)

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. "Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with 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' evolutionary 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."--Jacket A Life Well Lived: Maxwell Jones–A Memoir......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Introduction: A Record of a Friendship......Page 13 1. “Max and his Gangsters”......Page 15 2. The 1960s......Page 29 3. Painful Communication......Page 49 4. Dreams Die Hard......Page 87 5. Recycling the Psyche......Page 119 6. The Illusion of Reality......Page 157 7. After Thoughts: A Life Well Lived......Page 173 8. Social Learning and the Future: A Conversation......Page 179 Notes and References......Page 197 Annotation 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 TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD lieutenant, I had "hitchhiked" with my friend and colleague, Lieutenant Commander Lina Stearns, the psychiatric nursing supervisor, from California to London on military aircraft.