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

203 Pages·2003·0.85 MB·English

by  Dennie Briggs

A LIFE WELL LIVED
Therapeutic Communities
Series editors: Rex Haigh and Jan Lees
The Therapeutic Community movement holds a multidisciplinary view
of health which is based on ideas of collective responsibility, citizenship
and empowerment. The tradition has a long and distinguished history
and is experiencing a revival of interest in contemporary theory and
practice. It draws from many different principles – including analytic,
behavioural, creative, educational and humanistic – in the framework of
a group-based view of the social origins and maintenance of much
overwhelming distress, mental ill-health and deviant behaviour.
Therapeutic Community principles are applicable in a wide variety of
settings, and this series will reflect that.
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Milieux and Madness
R.D. Hinshelwood
ISBN 1 85302 954 8
Therapeutic Communities 8
An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities
David Kennard
ISBN 1 85302 603 4
Therapeutic Communities 1
Therapeutic Communities
Past, Present and Future
Edited by Penelope Campling and Rex Haigh
ISBN 1 85302 626 3
Therapeutic Communities 2
Therapeutic Communities for the Treatment of Drug Users
Edited by Barbara Rawlings and Rowdy Yates
ISBN 1 85302 817 7
Therapeutic Communities 4
A Therapeutic Community Approach to Care in the Community
Dialogue and Dwelling
Edited by Sarah Tucker
ISBN 1 85302 751 0
Therapeutic Communities 3
A Life Well Lived
Maxwell Jones–A Memoir
Dennie Briggs
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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First Published in the United Kingdom in 2002 by
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Copyright © 2002 by Dennie Briggs
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Briggs, Dennie.
A life well lived : Maxwell Jones--a memoir/Dennie Briggs.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-84310-740-6 (alk. paper)
1. Jones, Maxwell. 2. Clinical psychologists--Biography. I. Title.
RC438.6.J644 B75 2002
616.89’0092--dc21
[B}
2002023979
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British Library
ISBN 1 84310 740 6
ISBN 1 84310 740 6
Printed and Bound in Great Britain by
Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
CONTENTS
Introduction: A Record of a Friendship 11
1. “Max and his Gangsters” 13
2. The 1960s 27
3. Painful Communication 47
4. Dreams Die Hard 85
5. Recycling the Psyche 117
6. The Illusion of Reality 155
7. After Thoughts: A Life Well Lived 171
8. Social Learning and the Future: A Conversation 177
NOTES AND REFERENCES 195
Maxwell Shaw Jones
1907–1990
For the memory and legacy
of Maxwell Jones
by the same author
Dealing With Deviants: The Treatment of Anti-Social Behavior.
(1972) London: Hogarth Press (co-author).
In Place of Prison. (1975) London: Temple Smith/New Society.
La Comunità Therapeutica: Conversazioni con Maxwell Jones.
(1986) Rome: Centro Italiano di Soldarietà.
An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael
Toms. (1990) New York: Harper & Row (co-editor).
A Class of Their Own: When Children Teach Children. (1998)
Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey/Greenwood.
Online Publications: http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk
In Prison, I, II, III
In the Navy, I, II
In School, I, II, III, IV